Holy Scripture
1 Samuel 20:34
A church father on this verse
“For that commendable friendship which maintains virtue is to be preferred most certainly to wealth or honors or power. It is not apt to be preferred to virtue indeed, but to follow after it. So it was with Jonathan, who for his affection's sake avoided neither his father's displeasure nor the danger to his own safety.”
Source: Septuagint
Original
34And Jonathan sprang up from the table in great anger, and did not eat bread on the second day of the month, for he grieved bitterly for David, because his father determined on mischief against him.
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In context
32And Jonathan answered Saul, Why is he to die? what has he done?
33And Saul lifted up his spear against Jonathan to slay him: so Jonathan knew that this evil was determined on by his father to slay David.
— 1 Samuel 20:34 —
35And morning came, and Jonathan went out to the field, as he appointed to do for a signal to David, and a little boy was with him.
36And he said to the boy, Run, find me the arrows which I shoot: and the boy ran, and Jonathan shot an arrow, and sent it beyond him.