1 Samuel 20:5
And David said to Jonathan, Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king to eat. But let me go that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4Then Jonathan said to David, Whatever thy soul desires, I will even do it for thee.
Cross References
Numbers 10:10Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings. And they shall be to you for a m
1 Samuel 19:2And Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill thee. Now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself in the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself.
1 Samuel 20:18Then Jonathan said to him, Tomorrow is the new moon, and thou will be missed because thy seat will be empty.
2 Kings 4:23And he said, Why will thou go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
Psalms 81:3Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast-day.
John 8:59Therefore they took up stones so that they might throw at him, but Jesus was hid, and went out of the temple, having passed through the midst of them, and thus passed on.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 20:2-9
David Consults Jonathan. ( b. c. 1058.) 1 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life? 2 And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will shew it me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so. 3 And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in… Read the whole commentary →