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30 Then Saul became angry[a] at Jonathan and said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman![b] Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your shame and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness? 31 For as long as[c] the son of Jesse is alive on the earth, you and your kingdom will not be established! So then, send and bring him to me, for he will surely die!”[d] 32 But Jonathan answered his father Saul and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 20:30 Literally “the nose of Saul became hot”
  2. 1 Samuel 20:30 Or “bastard of a wayward woman” (HALOT 796)
  3. 1 Samuel 20:31 Literally “all the days which”
  4. 1 Samuel 20:31 Literally “he is a son of death”