NASB
"Jonathan then answered Saul, "David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem,"
— 1 Samuel 20:28, NASB
“And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beth–lehem:”
“And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beth-lehem: ”
“Jonathan answered Saul, "David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem.”
“Jonathan replied to Saul,“David urgently requested that he be allowed to go to Bethlehem.”
“And Jonathan answered Saul: He asked leave of me earnestly to go to Bethlehem.”
“And answering Saul, Jonathan said, He made a request to me that he might go to Beth-lehem,”
“And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beth–lehem:”
The king sat on his seat as usual, the seat by the wall; then Jonathan rose up and Abner sat down by Saul's side, but David's place was empty.
Nevertheless Saul did not speak anything that day, for he thought, "It is an accident, he is not clean, surely he is not clean."
It came about the next day, the second day of the new moon, that David's place was empty; so Saul said to Jonathan his son, "Why has the son of Jesse not come to the meal, either yesterday or today?"
Jonathan then answered Saul, "David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem,
for he said, 'Please let me go, since our family has a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to attend. And now, if I have found favor in your sight, please let me get away that I may see my brothers.' For this reason he has not come to the king's table."
Then Saul's anger burned against Jonathan and he said to him, "You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you are choosing the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?
"For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. Therefore now, send and bring him to me, for he must surely die."