³ But David took an oath^(A) and said, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said to himself, ‘Jonathan must not know this or he will be grieved.’ Yet as surely as the Lord lives and as you live, there is only a step between me and death.”

¹³ Stay here for the night, and in the morning if he wants to do his duty as your guardian-redeemer,^(A) good; let him redeem you. But if he is not willing, as surely as the Lord lives^(B) I will do it.^(C) Lie here until morning.”