1 Samuel 20:26
And Saul said nothing that day, for he thought it might have happened to him, that he was not clean, nor purified.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Leviticus 11:24And whosoever shall touch the carcasses of them, shall be defiled, and shall be unclean until the evening:
Leviticus 11:31All these are unclean. He that toucheth their carcasses shall be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 15:5If ally man touch his bed, he shall wash his clothes: and being washed with water, he shall be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 15:19The woman, who at the return of the month, hath her issue of blood, shall be separated seven days.
1 Samuel 16:5And he said: It is peaceable: I am come to offer sacrifice to the Lord, be ye sanctified, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Isai and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 20:25-35
Jonathan Excuses David to Saul. ( b. c. 1058.) 24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat. 25 And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty. 26 Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean. 27 And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of… Read the whole commentary →