1 Samuel 20
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1 Samuel 20:18-22

18Then Jonathan said, “Tomorrow we celebrate the new moon festival. You will be missed when your place at the table is empty.

19The day after tomorrow, toward evening, go to the place where you hid before, and wait there by the stone pile.

20I will come out and shoot three arrows to the side of the stone pile as though I were shooting at a target.

21Then I will send a boy to bring the arrows back. If you hear me tell him, ‘They’re on this side,’ then you will know, as surely as the Lord lives, that all is well, and there is no trouble.

22But if I tell him, ‘Go farther—the arrows are still ahead of you,’ then it will mean that you must leave immediately, for the Lord is sending you away.

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