12 David then asked, “Will the citizens of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?” The Lord answered: They will deliver you.
13 So David and his men, about six hundred in number, left Keilah and wandered from place to place. When Saul was informed that David had fled from Keilah, he did not go forth.
14 David now lived in the strongholds in the wilderness, or in the barren hill country near Ziph. Though Saul sought him continually, the Lord did not deliver David into his hand.
15 While David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh he was afraid that Saul had come out to seek his life.
16 Then Saul’s son, Jonathan, came down to David at Horesh and encouraged him in the Lord.
17 He said to him: “Have no fear, my father Saul shall not lay a hand to you. You shall be king of Israel and I shall be second to you. Even my father Saul knows this.”
18 The two of them made a covenant before the Lord in Horesh, where David remained, while Jonathan returned to his home.