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1 Samuel 20 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
24 David therefore was hid in the field, and the calends came, and the king sat down to eat bread.
25 And when the king was set upon his chair (according to the custom) which was beside the wall, Jonathas arose, and Abner sat at the side of Saul, and David's place appeared void.
26 And Saul said nothing that day, for he thought it had chanced perhaps unto him, that he was not clean, nor purified.
27 And when the second day was come after the calends, again David's place appeared empty. And Saul said to Jonathas his son: Why came not the son of Isai neither yesterday nor to day to eat?
28 Jonathas answered Saul: He desired me instantly, that he might go into Bethlehem,
29 and he said: Let me go, because there is a solemn sacrifice in the city, one of my brethren hath sent for me: now therefore if I have found grace in thy sight, I will go quickly, & see my brethren. For this cause he came not to the king's table.
Saul Seeks to Kill Jonathan
30 But Saul being wrath against Jonathas, said to him: Thou son of a woman which of her own accord ravisheth a man, am I ignorant that thou lovest the son of Isai unto thine own confusion, & to the confusion of thine ignominious mother?
31 For all the days, that the son of Isai shall live upon the earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy Kingdom. Therefore now presently send, and bring him to me: because he is the son of death.
32 And Jonathas answering Saul his father, said: Why shall he die? What hath he done?
33 And Saul caught a spear to strike him. And Jonathas understood that it was determined of his father, that he would kill David.
34 Jonathas therefore rose from the table in anger of fury, and did not eat bread the second day of the calends. For he was strucken heavy upon David, because his father had confounded him.
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