for I know that you are all inclinable
to him; [even my own son Jonathan himself is of that opinion, and
persuades you to be of the same]; for I am not unacquainted with
the oaths and the covenants that are between him and David, and that
Jonathan is a counselor and an assistant to those that conspire against
me, and none of you are concerned about these things, but you keep
silence and watch, to see what will be the upshot of these things." When
the king had made this speech, not one of the rest of those that were
present made any answer; but Doeg the Syrian, who fed his mules, said,
that he saw David when he came to the city Nob to Ahimelech the high
priest, and that he learned future events by his prophesying; that he
received food from him, and the sword of Goliath, and was conducted by
him with security to such as he desired to go to.

5. Saul therefore sent for the high priest, and for all his kindred;
and said to them, "What terrible or ungrateful tiring hast thou suffered
from me, that thou hast received the son of Jesse, and hast bestowed on
him both food and weapons, when he was contriving to get the kingdom?
And further, why didst thou deliver oracles to him concerning
futurities? For thou couldst not be unacquainted that he was fled away
from me, and that he hated my family." But the high priest did not
betake himself to deny what he had done, but confessed boldly that
he had supplied him with these things, not to gratify David, but Saul
himself: and he said, "I did not know that he was thy adversary, but a
servant of thine, who was very faithful to thee, and a captain over a
thousand of thy soldiers, and, what is more than these, thy son-in-law,
and kinsman. Men do not choose to confer such favors on their
adversaries, but on those who are esteemed to bear the highest good-will
and respect to them. Nor is this the first time that I prophesied for
him, but I have done it often, and at other times as well as now. And
when he told me that he was sent by thee in great haste to do somewhat,
if I had furnished him with nothing that he desired I should have
thought that it was rather in contradiction to thee than to him;
wherefore do not thou entertain any ill opinion of me, nor do thou have
a suspicion of what I then thought an act of humanity, from what is now
told thee of David's attempts against thee, for I did then to him as
to thy friend and son-in-law, and captain of a thousand, and not as to
thine adversar