1 Samuel 20:5

Modern English Version

David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king to eat. But let me go that I may hide myself in the field until the evening of the third day.

Cross References

2 Kings 4:23

He said, “Why are you going to him today? It is neither New Moon nor Sabbath.” She said, “It will be all right.”

Psalm 55:12

For it is not an enemy who reproaches me; then I could bear it; nor is it he who hates me who has exalted himself against me; then I could hide from him.

Psalm 81:3

Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon on our feast day.

Proverbs 22:3

A prudent man foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.

Amos 8:5

saying, “When will the New Moon be over, so that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may open the wheat sales, making the ephah too small, and the shekel too heavy, cheating with dishonest scales,

Numbers 10:10

Also in the day of your gladness, and at your appointed days, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings that they may be a memorial for you before your God. I am the Lord your God.

Numbers 28:11

At the beginnings of your months you will offer a burnt offering to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, seven lambs in their first year, without blemish;

John 8:59

Then they took up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple. Going through their midst, He passed by.

Acts 17:14

The brothers immediately sent Paul away to the sea. But Silas and Timothy remained there.

Colossians 2:16

Therefore let no one judge you regarding food, or drink, or in respect of a holy day or new moon or sabbath days.

1 Samuel 19:2

Jonathan told David, saying, “My father Saul seeks to kill you. Therefore, be on guard in the morning; stay in a secret place and hide yourself.

1 Samuel 20:18

Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.

1 Samuel 20:19

When you have stayed three days, you will surely go down and come to the place where you hid yourself on the day this happened, and wait there beside the stone Ezel.

1 Samuel 20:24

So David hid himself in the field. And when the New Moon appeared, the king sat down over food to eat.

1 Samuel 20:27

It happened on the following day, which was the second day of the month, that David’s place remained empty. So Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why has the son of Jesse not come to eat food either yesterday or today?”

1 Samuel 20:4

Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you say, I will do it for you.”

1 Samuel 20:6

If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David asked for leave from me that he might run to Bethlehem his city, for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.’