David swore moreover, and said, *Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, 'Don't let Yonatan know this, lest he be grieved:' but truly as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.*
David said to Yonatan, *Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.