Sinai1 Samuel 20:28
American Standard Version
And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beth-lehem:
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1 Samuel 20:28 in other translations
Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly asked permission of me to go to Bethlehem.
1 Samuel 20:28 in context
- 26Nevertheless Saul spake not anything that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.
- 27And it came to pass on the morrow after the new moon, which was the second day, that David’s place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor to-day?
- 28And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beth-lehem:
- 29and he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me to be there: and now, if I have found favor in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he is not come unto the king’s table.
- 30Then Saul’s anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of a perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own shame, and unto the shame of thy mother’s nakedness?