1 Samuel 20:18

And Jonathan said, To-morrow is the new moon, and you will be enquired for, because your seat will be observed as vacant.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.

In Context

17And Jonathan swore yet again to David, because he loved the soul of him that loved him.

19And you shall + 20:19 Gr. act thrice. stay three days, and watch an opportunity, and shall come to your place where you may hide yourself in the day of your business, and you shall wait by that + 20:19 A corruption of the Heb. ezel. stone Ezel.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 20:5And David said to Jonathan, Behold, to-morrow is the new moon, and I shall not on any account sit down to eat, but you shall let me go, and I will hide in the plain till the evening.

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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