1 Samuel 20:5

And David said to Jonathan: Behold to morrow is the new moon, and I according to custom am wont to sit beside the king to eat: let me go then that I may be hid in the field till the evening of the third day.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

4And Jonathan said to David: Whatsoever thy soul shall say to me, I will do for thee.

6If thy father look and inquire for me, thou shalt answer him: David asked me that he might run to Bethlehem his own city: because there are solemn sacrifices there for all his tribe.

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Cross References

Numbers 10:10If at any time you shall have a banquet, end on your festival days, and on the first days of your months, you shall sound the trumpets over the holocausts, and the sacrifices of peace offerings, that they may be to you for a remembrance of your God. I am the Lord your God.

1 Samuel 19:2And Jonathan told David, saying: Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: wherefore look to thyself, I beseech thee, in the morning, and thou shalt abide in a secret place and shalt be hid.

1 Samuel 20:18And Jonathan said to him: To morrow is the new moon, and thou wilt be missed:

2 Kings 4:23And he said to her: Why dost thou go to him? to day is neither new moon nor sabbath. She answered: I will go.

Psalms 81:3Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.

John 8:59They took up stones therefore to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.

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 →

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