And Jonathan said to David: Come and let us go out into the field. And when they were both of them gone out into the field,

And Jonathan saith unto David, 'Come, and we go out into the field;' and they go out both of them into the field.

And Jonathan said to David, Come, let us go out into the country. And the two of them went out together into the open country.

And Jonathan said to David, "Come, and let us go out into the field." And when they both had gone out into the field,

Come, and let us go out into the field - In answer to David's question, he now shows him how he shall convey this intelligence to him.

And Jonathan said unto David, come, and let us go out into the field,.... That they might more fully, and freely, and familiarly talk of this affair between them, without any danger of being overheard by the servants of Saul, as they were in his palace, where they now were:
and they went out both of them into the field; which belonged to Gibeah.

Jonathan faithfully promises that he would let David know how he found his father affected towards him. It will be kindness to ourselves and to ours, to secure an interest in those whom God favours, and to make his friends ours. True friendship rests on a firm basis, and is able to silence ambition, self-love, and undue regard for others. But who can fully understand the love of Jesus, who gave himself as a sacrifice for rebellious, polluted sinners! how great then ought to be the force and effects of our love to him, to his cause, and his people!

THEIR COVENANT RENEWED BY OATH. (1-Samuel 20:11-23)
Jonathan said to David, Come, let us go into the field--The private dialogue, which is here detailed at full length, presents a most beautiful exhibition of these two amiable and noble-minded friends. Jonathan was led, in the circumstances, to be the chief speaker. The strength of his attachment, his pure disinterestedness, his warm piety, his invocation to God (consisting of a prayer and a solemn oath combined), the calm and full expression he gave of his conviction that his own family were, by the divine will, to be disinherited, and David elevated to the possession of the throne, the covenant entered into with David on behalf of his descendants, and the imprecation (1-Samuel 20:16) denounced on any of them who should violate his part of the conditions, the reiteration of this covenant on both sides (1-Samuel 20:17) to make it indissoluble--all this indicates such a power of mutual affection, such magnetic attractiveness in the character of David, such susceptibility and elevation of feeling in the heart of Jonathan, that this interview for dramatic interest and moral beauty stands unrivalled in the records of human friendship.

Before replying to these questions, Jonathan asked David to go with him to the field, that they might there fix upon the sign by which he would let him know, in a way in which no one could suspect, what was the state of his father's mind.