1 Samuel 20:28
26 Saul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”
27 But on the day after the New Moon, the second day, David’s place was still empty, and Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal either yesterday or today?”
Jonathan answered, “David urgently requested my permission to go to Bethlehem,
29 saying, ‘Please let me go, because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That is why he did not come to the king’s table.”
30 Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the disgrace of the mother who bore you?
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Jonathan answered, “David urgently requested my permission to go to Bethlehem,
- KJV
- And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beth-lehem:
- WEB
- Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly asked permission of me to go to Bethlehem.
- ASV
- And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beth-lehem:
- DARBY
- And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me [to go] to Bethlehem,
- BLB
- And Jonathan answered Saul, “David urgently requested from me [to go] to Bethlehem,
- ÅB
- Jonatan svarte Saul: David; ba meg inntrengende om han måtte få gå til Betlehem;
- OTB
- Jonatan svarte Saul: "David ba innstendig om tillatelse fra meg til å dra til Betlehem.
- B1930
- Jonatan svarte Saul: David; bad mig inntrengende om han måtte få gå til Betlehem;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Samuel 20:6
If your father misses me at all, tell him, ‘David urgently requested my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because there is an annual sacrifice for his whole clan.’
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