, he has not
come to your table."

Then Saul's anger was aroused against Jonathan, and he said to him, "Son
of a rebellious slave girl! Do I not know that you are making the son of
Jesse your friend to your own shame and to your mother's shame? For as
long as the son of Jesse lives, neither you nor your rule will be safe.
Therefore, send now and bring him to me, for he is doomed to die."

Then Jonathan answered Saul his father and said, "Why should he be put
to death? What has he done?" But Saul flung his spear at him to strike
him. So Jonathan knew that his father had made up his mind to put David
to death. And Jonathan rose from the table in hot anger and ate no food
on the second day of the month, for he felt hurt because his father had
insulted David.

The next morning Jonathan went out into the field to the place agreed
upon with David, and a small boy was with him. He said to his boy, "Run,
find now the arrows which I shoot." As the boy ran, he shot an arrow
beyond him. When the boy came to the place where the arrow which
Jonathan had shot lay, Jonathan called to him, "Is not the arrow beyond
you? Hurry, be quick, do not stop!" So Jonathan's lad gathered up the
arrows, and brought them to his master. But the boy knew nothing about
the signal. Only Jonathan and David understood.

THE COST OF A LIE

Then David went to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest who came trembling to
meet David and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no one with you?"
David answered Ahimelech the priest, "Saul has given me orders about
some business and has said to me, 'Let no one know anything about the
business on which I am sending you and about which I have given you
orders.' I have also directed the young men to meet me at a certain
place. Therefore, if you have at hand five loaves of bread, give them to
me or whatever can be found." The priest answered David, "There is no
plain bread at hand, but only holy bread." So the priest gave him holy
bread, for there was no other bread there except that which had been
removed from the temple to be replaced at once by hot bread.

Now Doeg, the Edomite, the chief of Saul's herdsmen, was there that day.
And David said to Ahimelech, "Have you not here at hand a spear or
sword? For I did not bring my sword or my weapons with me, since the
king's business required haste." The priest said, "The sword of Goliath
the Philistine whom you slew in the valley of Elah is there, wrapped in
a cloth. If you