1 SAMUEL 20:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And Jonathan said unto David, O Lord God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and, behold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and shew it thee;”
And Jonathan said to David, The LORD, the God of Israel, be my witness — Jonathan invokes *YHWH elohey Yisrael*, the LORD God of Israel, as witness to a new covenant. His *ki atzel et avi*, I will sound out my father, commits him to investigation, to testing Saul's disposition toward David. The verb *atzel*, to sound or probe, suggests careful investigation, the drawing out of hidden truth.
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