“Now a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear caught a whisper of it.

“Indeed, my eyes have seen all this, my ears have heard and understood it.

I will learn a song that imparts wisdom; I will then sing my insightful song to the accompaniment of a harp.

For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors.

I gloat in triumph over those who tried to ambush me; I hear the defeated cries of the evil foes who attacked me.

For all of you have conspired against me! No one informs me when my own son makes an agreement with this son of Jesse! Not one of you feels sorry for me or informs me that my own son has commissioned my own servant to hide in ambush against me, as is the case today!”

Jonathan said to him, “By no means are you going to die! My father does nothing large or small without making me aware of it. Why would my father hide this matter from me? It just won’t happen!”

Then the king said to the messengers who were stationed beside him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, for they too have sided with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm the priests of the Lord.