11Jonathan said to David, Come, and let us go out into the field. They went out both of them into the field.
12Jonathan said to David, Yahweh, the God of Israel, [be witness]: when I have sounded my father about this time tomorrow, [or] the third day, behold, if there be good toward David, shall I not then send to you, and disclose it to you?
13Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don`t disclose it to you, and send you away, that you may go in peace: and Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father.
14You shall not only while yet I live show me the lovingkindness of Yahweh, that I not die;
15but also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever; no, not when Yahweh has cut off the enemies of David everyone from the surface of the earth.
16So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, [saying], Yahweh will require it at the hand of David`s enemies.
17Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.