20:4 20:4

1 Samuel 20:5

20:6 20:6

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And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow [is] the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third [day] at even.
And David {H1732} said {H559} unto Jonathan {H3083}, Behold, to morrow {H4279} is the new moon {H2320}, and I should not fail {H3427} to sit {H3427} with the king {H4428} at meat {H398}: but let me go {H7971}, that I may hide {H5641} myself in the field {H7704} unto the third {H7992} day at even {H6153}.
David answered Y'honatan, "Look, tomorrow is Rosh-Hodesh, and I ought to be dining with the king. Instead, let me go and hide myself in the countryside until evening of the third day.
So David told him, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I am supposed to dine with the king. Instead, let me go and hide in the field until the third evening from now.
And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to-morrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even.

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  • Numbers 10:10

    Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I [am] the LORD your God.
  • 1 Samuel 19:2

    But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret [place], and hide thyself:
  • Numbers 28:11

    And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;
  • Psalms 81:3

    Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
  • 1 Samuel 20:6

    If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked [leave] of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for [there is] a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
  • Proverbs 22:3

    ¶ A prudent [man] foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
  • John 8:59

    Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

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