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Jonathan replied to David, “Tell me what I can do for you.”[a]

David said to Jonathan, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and I am certainly expected to join the king for a meal.[b] You must send me away so I can hide in the field until the third evening from now. If your father happens to miss me, you should say, ‘David urgently requested me to let him go[c] to his town Bethlehem, for there is an annual sacrifice there for his entire family.’

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 20:4 tn Heb “whatever your soul says, I will do for you.”
  2. 1 Samuel 20:5 tn Heb “and I must surely sit with the king to eat.” The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.
  3. 1 Samuel 20:6 tn Heb “to run.”