When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to persuade her.

When Ruth returned to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked her, “How did it go, my daughter?” Then Ruth told her all that Boaz had done for her.

His armor-bearer replied, “Do all that is in your heart. Go ahead; I am with you heart and soul.”

Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.

Then Saul ordered his son Jonathan and all his servants to kill David. But Jonathan delighted greatly in David,

I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, so I can ask about you. And if I find out anything, I will tell you.”

Then Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul and said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David; he has not sinned against you. In fact, his actions have been highly beneficial to you.

So Jonathan summoned David and told him all these things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul to serve him as he had before.

“Far from it!” Jonathan replied. “You will not die. Indeed, my father does nothing, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This cannot be true!”

But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”

Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you desire, I will do for you.”

“Never!” Jonathan replied. “If I ever found out that my father had evil intentions against you, would I not tell you?”