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26 Saul didn’t say anything that day, thinking, “Something has happened to him so that he’s unclean.[a] He must be unclean.” 27 But on the second day of the month, David’s place was still empty.

Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t Jesse’s son come to the meal either yesterday or today?”

28 Jonathan answered Saul, “David repeatedly begged me to let him go to Bethlehem.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 20:26 “Unclean” refers to anything that Moses’ Teachings say is not presentable to God.

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