1 Samuel 20:19

In three days time, go quickly to where you hid when all this started, and stay there beside the pile of stones.

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In The King James Version

And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.

In Context

18Then Jonathan said to David, “The New Moon festival is tomorrow. You'll be missed, because your place will be empty.

20I'll shoot three arrows to the side of it as if I were shooting at a target.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 19:1Then Saul instructed his son Jonathan and all his officials to kill David. But Jonathan really liked David,

1 Samuel 20:5“Well, the New Moon festival is tomorrow, and I'm meant to sit down and eat with the king. But if it's all right with you, I plan to go and hide in the field until the evening three days from now.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 20:10-24

Jonathan's Covenant with David. ( b. c. 1058.) 9 And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee? 10 Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly? 11 And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field. 12 And Jonathan said unto David, O Lord God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to morrow… Read the whole commentary →

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