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28 Jonathan answered, “David asked me to let him go to Bethlehem. 29 He said, ‘Let me go. Our family is having a sacrifice in Bethlehem. My brother ordered me to be there. Now if I am your friend, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That is why David has not come to the king’s table.”

30 Saul was very angry with Jonathan and said to him, “You son of a twisted, rebellious woman! I know that you have chosen to support that son of Jesse.[a] This will bring shame to you and to your mother.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 20:30 that son of Jesse Saul refers to David by his father’s name, intending it as an insult.

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