1 Samuel 20:10-12

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁰ Then David said to Jonathan, ‘Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?’ ¹¹ Jonathan replied to David, ‘Come, let us go out into the field.’ So they both went out into the field.

¹² Jonathan said to David, ‘By the Lord, the God of Israel! When I have sounded out my father, about this time tomorrow, or on the third day, if he is well disposed towards David, shall I not then send and disclose it to you?