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."
27 It came about the next day, the second day of the new moon, that David's place was empty; so Saul said to Jonathan his son, "Why has the son of Jesse not come to the meal, either yesterday or today?"
28 Jonathan then answered Saul, "David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem,