1 Samuel 20:26-28

Common English Bible

²⁶ Saul didn’t say anything that day because he thought, Perhaps David became unclean somehow. That must be it. ²⁷ But on the next day, the second of the new moon, David’s seat was still empty. Saul said to his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t Jesse’s son come to the table,^[a] either yesterday or today?”

²⁸ Jonathan answered Saul, “David begged my permission to go to Bethlehem.