1 Samuel 20:3 meaning and explanation
But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”
1 Samuel 20:3, Berean Standard Bible
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David speaks these words to Jonathan in secret, having fled from Saul. Jonathan cannot believe his father means David harm, so David swears an oath: Saul knows Jonathan loves David and has hidden his plan to spare him grief.
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