Scripture · Old Testament
1 Samuel 20:28
1 Samuel 20:28 is verse 28 of 1 Samuel chapter 20, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Jonathan answered, “David urgently requested my permission to go to Bethlehem,
King James Version
And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem:
World English Bible
Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly asked permission of me to go to Bethlehem.
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1 Samuel 20:26–30 · Berean Standard Bible
26 Saul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”
27 But on the day after the New Moon, the second day, David’s place was still empty, and Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal either yesterday or today?”
28 Jonathan answered, “David urgently requested my permission to go to Bethlehem,
29 saying, ‘Please let me go, because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That is why he did not come to the king’s table.”
30 Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the disgrace of the mother who bore you?
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