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1 Samuel 20:17-19
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1 Samuel 20:17-19
New English Translation
17 Jonathan once again took an oath with David, because he loved him. In fact Jonathan loved him as much as he did his own life.[a] 18 Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, for your seat will be empty. 19 On the third day[b] you should go down quickly[c] and come to the place where you hid yourself the day this all started.[d] Stay near the stone Ezel.
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- 1 Samuel 20:17 tn Heb “for [with] the love of his [own] life he loved him.”
- 1 Samuel 20:19 tc Heb “you will do [something] a third time.” The translation assumes an emendation of the verb from שִׁלַּשְׁתָּ (shillashta, “to do a third time”) to שִׁלִּישִׁית (shillishit, “[on the] third [day]”).
- 1 Samuel 20:19 tn Heb “you must go down greatly.” See Judg 19:11 for the same idiom.
- 1 Samuel 20:19 tn Heb “on the day of the deed.” This probably refers to the incident recorded in 19:2.
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