1 Samuel 20:26-28

International Standard Version

²⁶ Saul didn’t say anything that day because he told himself,^[a] “Something has happened; he’s unclean; surely he’s not clean.”

²⁷ But the next day, on the second day of the New Moon, David’s place was empty, and so Saul told his son Jonathan, “Why didn’t Jesse’s son come to the festival, either yesterday or today?”

²⁸ Jonathan answered Saul, “David urgently requested that I let him go to Bethlehem.