21. And behold, I will send the lad, saying, 'Go, find the arrows.' If I specifically say to the lad, 'Behold, the arrows are on this side of you, get them,' then come; for there is safety for you and no harm, as the Lord lives.
22. But if I say to the youth, 'Behold, the arrows are beyond you,' go, for the Lord has sent you away.
23. As for the agreement of which you and I have spoken, behold, the Lord is between you and me forever."
24. So David hid in the field; and when the new moon came, the king sat down to eat food.
25. The king sat on his seat as usual, the seat by the wall; then Jonathan rose up and Abner sat down by Saul's side, but David's place was empty.
26. Nevertheless Saul did not speak anything that day, for he thought, "It is an accident, he is not clean, surely he is not clean."