Behold, I will send the boy, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ If I tell the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are on this side of you.
Take them;’ then come, for there is peace to you and no danger, as the LORD lives.
But if I say this to the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are beyond you,’ then go your way, for the LORD has sent you away.
Concerning the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, the LORD is between you and me forever.”
So David hid himself in the field.
When the new moon had come, the king sat himself down to eat food.