Bible verse
So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat.
1 Samuel 20:24 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Samuel 20.
20 I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as if I were aiming at a target.
21 Then I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ Now, if I expressly say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them,’ then come, because as surely as the LORD lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger.
22 But if I say to the young man, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ then you must go, for the LORD has sent you away.
23 And as for the matter you and I have discussed, the LORD is a witness between you and me forever.”
24 So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat.
25 He sat in his usual place by the wall, opposite Jonathan and beside Abner, but David’s place was empty.
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?”
28 Jonathan answered, “David urgently requested my permission to go to Bethlehem,
KJV
So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat.
ASV
So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat food.
ERV
So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat.
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