1 Samuel 20:24

New American Bible - revised edition

So David hid in the open country. David’s Absence. On the day of the new moon, when the king sat down at the feast to dine,

Cross References

Proverbs 15:17

Better a dish of herbs where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.

Proverbs 17:1

Better a dry crust with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination, the more so when they offer it with bad intent.

Proverbs 21:3

To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Proverbs 4:17

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

Zechariah 7:6

When you were eating and drinking, was it not for yourselves that you ate and for yourselves that you drank?

John 18:28

Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium. It was morning. And they themselves did not enter the praetorium, in order not to be defiled so that they could eat the Passover.

1 Samuel 20:23

However, in the matter which you and I have discussed, the Lord shall be between you and me forever.”

1 Samuel 20:25

he took his usual place against the wall. Jonathan sat facing him, while Abner sat at the king’s side. David’s place was vacant.

1 Samuel 20:5

David answered: “Tomorrow is the new moon, when I should in fact dine with the king. Let me go and hide in the open country until evening.