1 Samuel 20:3

But David vowed again , saying , Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes , and he thinks , Do not let Jonathan know this , lest he be grieved . But truly , as the Lord lives and as your soul lives , there is but a step between me and death .

But David took an oath 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.”

And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved : but truly as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.