1 Samuel 20:35-42

Legacy Standard Bible

³⁵ Now it happened in the morning that Jonathan went out into the field for the appointment with David, and a very young man was with him. ³⁶ And he said to his young man, “^(A)Run, find now the arrows which I am about to shoot.” As the young man was running, he shot ^[a]an arrow past him. ³⁷ When the young man reached the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan called after the lad and said, “^(B)Is not the arrow beyond you?” ³⁸ And Jonathan called after the young man, “Hurry, be quick, do not stay!” And Jonathan’s young man gathered up the arrow and came to his master. ³⁹ But the young man did not know of anything; only Jonathan and David knew about the matter. ⁴⁰ Then Jonathan gave his weapons to his young man and said to him, “Go, bring them to the city.” ⁴¹ When the young man was gone, David rose from the south side and fell on his ^[b]face to the ground and ^(C)bowed three times. And they kissed each other and wept together, but ^(D)David wept more. ⁴² And Jonathan said to David, “^(E)Go in peace, inasmuch as we have sworn to each other in the name of Yahweh, saying, ‘^(F)Yahweh will be between me and you, and between my seed and your seed forever.’” ^[c]Then he rose and departed, while Jonathan went into the city.