Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came to Jonathan and said, What have I done? What is my iniquity? And what is my sin before your father that he seeks my life? — David's flight from Naioth (*va'yibrach David m'Niyot b'Ramah va'yavo el Yehonatan*) leads him to his covenant friend; Jonathan becomes the refuge when all others fail. David's *mah asiti* (what have I done) expresses bewilderment at Saul's hatred, a genuine question that seeks to understand the cause of the king's vendetta. The enumeration—iniquity (*avon*), sin (*chatah*)—invokes legal language, the vocabulary of transgression, suggesting David seeks to know what crime he has supposedly committed.

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