⁵ And David said to Jonathan, “Indeed tomorrow is the ^(A)New Moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king to eat. But let me go, that I may ^(B)hide in the field until the third day at evening.

¹⁸ Then Jonathan said to David, ^(A)“Tomorrow is the New Moon; and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.

²⁴ Then David hid in the field. And when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat the feast.

²⁷ And it happened the next day, the second day of the month, that David’s place was empty. And Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why has the son of Jesse not come to eat, either yesterday or today?”

²² Then she called to her husband, and said, “Please send me one of the young men and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God and come back.”

²³ So he said, “Why are you going to him today? It is neither the ^(A)New Moon nor the Sabbath.”

And she said, ^[a]“It is well.”