And when you have stayed three days, then you shall go down quickly, and come to the place where you hid yourself when the former business was at hand, and shall remain by the stone Ezel.
But Jonathan Saul’s son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill you: now therefore, I pray you, be careful until the morning, and stay in a secret place, and hide yourself:
And David said to Jonathan, Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at mealtime: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field until the third day at evening.