1 Samuel 20:2-4

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² Jonathan answered, “That can’t be true! My father isn’t trying to kill you. My father doesn’t do anything without first telling me. It doesn’t matter how important it is, my father always tells me. Why would my father refuse to tell me that he wants to kill you? No, it is not true!”

³ But David answered, “Your father knows very well that I am your friend. Your father said to himself, ‘Jonathan must not know about it. If he knows, he will tell David.’^[a] But as surely as you and the Lord are alive, I am very close to death.”

⁴ Jonathan said to David, “I will do anything you want me to do.”