1 Samuel 20:5

Good News Translation (US Version)

“Tomorrow is the New Moon Festival,” David replied, “and I am supposed to eat with the king. But if it's all right with you, I will go and hide in the fields until the evening of the day after tomorrow.

Cross References

Numbers 10:10

Also on joyful occasions—at your New Moon Festivals and your other religious festivals—you are to blow the trumpets when you present your burnt offerings and your fellowship offerings. Then I will help you. I am the Lord your God.”

1 Samuel 19:2

and so he told him, “My father is trying to kill you. Please be careful tomorrow morning; hide in some secret place and stay there.

Numbers 28:11

Present a burnt offering to the Lord at the beginning of each month: two young bulls, one ram, seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.

Psalm 81:3

Blow the trumpet for the festival, when the moon is new and when the moon is full.

Colossians 2:16

So let no one make rules about what you eat or drink or about holy days or the New Moon Festival or the Sabbath.

Acts 17:14

At once the believers sent Paul away to the coast; but both Silas and Timothy stayed in Berea.

John 8:59

Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and left the Temple.

Proverbs 22:3

Sensible people will see trouble coming and avoid it, but an unthinking person will walk right into it and regret it later.

Psalm 55:12

If it were an enemy making fun of me, I could endure it; if it were an opponent boasting over me, I could hide myself from him.

1 Samuel 20:19

The day after tomorrow your absence will be noticed even more; so go to the place where you hid yourself the other time, and hide behind the pile of stones there.

1 Samuel 20:6

If your father notices that I am not at the table, tell him that I begged your permission to hurry home to Bethlehem, since it's the time for the annual sacrifice there for my whole family.

2 Kings 4:23

“Why do you have to go today?” her husband asked. “It's neither a Sabbath nor a New Moon Festival.” “Never mind,” she answered.

1 Samuel 20:4

Jonathan said, “I'll do anything you want.”

1 Samuel 20:18

Then Jonathan said to him, “Since tomorrow is the New Moon Festival, your absence will be noticed if you aren't at the meal.

1 Samuel 20:24

So David hid in the fields. At the New Moon Festival, King Saul came to the meal

1 Samuel 20:27

On the following day, the day after the New Moon Festival, David's place was still empty, and Saul asked Jonathan, “Why didn't David come to the meal either yesterday or today?”

Amos 8:5

You say to yourselves, “We can hardly wait for the holy days to be over so that we can sell our grain. When will the Sabbath end, so that we can start selling again? Then we can overcharge, use false measures, and fix the scales to cheat our customers.