1 Samuel 20:4-6

New King James Version

⁴ So Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you yourself desire, I will do it for you.”

⁵ And David said to Jonathan, “Indeed tomorrow is the ^(A)New Moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king to eat. But let me go, that I may ^(B)hide in the field until the third day at evening. ⁶ If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked permission of me that he might run over ^(C)to Bethlehem, his city, for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.’