¹⁴ Then Ahimelech answered the king, “And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and captain over^[a] your bodyguard, and honored in your house?

³² Then Jonathan answered Saul his father, ^(A)“Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

⁴ And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, “Let not the king ^(A)sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have brought good to you. ⁵ For ^(B)he took his life in his hand ^(C)and he struck down the Philistine, ^(D)and the Lord worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against ^(E)innocent blood by killing David without cause?”

^23 (A)The Lord rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness, for the Lord gave you into my hand today, and I would not put out my hand against the Lord's anointed.

¹¹ See, my father, see the corner of your robe in my hand. For by the fact that I cut off the corner of your robe and did not kill you, you may know and see that ^(A)there is no wrong or treason in my hands. I have not sinned against you, though ^(B)you hunt my life to take it.

¹³ And Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword and ^(A)have inquired of God for him, so that he has risen against me, ^(B)to lie in wait, as at this day?”