²⁴ So David hid himself in the field. When the new moon came,^[a] the king was seated at the feast.^{[b] 25} The king sat at his seat as before,^[c] the seat by the wall, and Jonathan got up, and Abner sat beside Saul, but David’s place was empty. ²⁶ But Saul said nothing on that day, for he thought, “Something happened to him.^[d] He is not ceremonially clean; surely he is not clean.”