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1 Samuel 20:28

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Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly asked permission of me to go to Bethlehem.

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1 Samuel 20:28 in other translations

And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beth-lehem:

1 Samuel 20:28 · American Standard Version

1 Samuel 20:28 in context

  1. 26Nevertheless Saul didn’t say anything that day, for he thought, “Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean.”
  2. 27On the next day after the new moon, the second day, David’s place was empty. Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why doesn’t the son of Jesse come to eat, either yesterday, or today?”
  3. 28Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly asked permission of me to go to Bethlehem.
  4. 29He said, ‘Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city. My brother has commanded me to be there. Now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go away and see my brothers.’ Therefore he has not come to the king’s table.”
  5. 30Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?