1 Samuel 20:26 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁶ Yet Saul did not say anything that day; for he thought, “Something has befallen him; he is not clean, surely he is not clean.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ Yet Saul said nothing that day, for he thought, Something has befallen him and he is not clean–surely he is not clean.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ Nevertheless Saul spake not anything that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.

Common English Bible

²⁶ Saul didn’t say anything that day because he thought, Perhaps David became unclean somehow. That must be it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ And Saul did not say anything on that day. For he was thinking that perhaps something happened to him, so that he was not clean, or not purified.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ And Saul said nothing that day; for he thought it might have happened to him, that he was not clean, nor purified.

1 Samuel 20:26 Cross References

Leviticus 11:24

“And by these you shall become unclean; whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening,

Leviticus 11:27

And all that go on their paws, among the animals that go on all fours, are unclean to you; whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening,

Leviticus 11:31

These are unclean to you among all that swarm; whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:40

and he who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; he also who carries the carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15:5

And any one who touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Numbers 19:16

Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

1 Samuel 16:5

And he said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord; consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” And he consecrated Jesse and his sons, and invited them to the sacrifice.

1 Samuel 20:27

But on the second day, the morrow after the new moon, David's place was empty. And Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why has not the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”