1 Samuel 20:24

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

So David hid himself in the field, and when the New Moon [festival] came, the king sat down to eat food.

Cross References

Proverbs 15:17

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it. [Prov. 17:1.]

Proverbs 17:1

BETTER IS a dry morsel with quietness than a house full of feasting [on offered sacrifices] with strife.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is exceedingly disgusting and abhorrent [to the Lord]–how much more when he brings it with evil intention?

Proverbs 21:3

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. [I Sam. 15:22; Prov. 15:8; Isa. 1:11; Hos. 6:6; Mic. 6:7, 8.]

Proverbs 4:17

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Zechariah 7:6

And when you ate and when you drank, did you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

John 18:28

Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas into the Praetorium (judgment hall, governor's palace). And it was early. They themselves did not enter the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled (become ceremonially unclean), but might be fit to eat the Passover [supper].

1 Samuel 20:23

And as touching the matter of which you and I have spoken, behold, the Lord is between you and me forever.

1 Samuel 20:25

The king sat, as at other times, on his seat by the wall, and Jonathan sat opposite, and Abner sat by Saul's side, but David's place was empty.

1 Samuel 20:5

David said to Jonathan, Tomorrow is the New Moon [festival], and I should not fail to sit at the table with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field till the third day at evening.