1 Samuel 20:5

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Numbers 10:10

And when you rejoice on your festivals, and your new-moon feasts, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and your communion sacrifices, so that this serves as a reminder of you before your God. I, the Lord, am your God. Departure from Sinai.

1 Samuel 19:2

told him: “My father Saul is trying to kill you. Therefore, please be on your guard tomorrow morning; stay out of sight and remain in hiding.

Numbers 28:11

On your new moons you will offer as a burnt offering to the Lord two bulls of the herd, one ram, and seven unblemished yearling lambs,

Psalm 81:3

Take up a melody, sound the timbrel, the pleasant lyre with a harp.

Colossians 2:16

Let no one, then, pass judgment on you in matters of food and drink or with regard to a festival or new moon or sabbath.

Acts 17:14

So the brothers at once sent Paul on his way to the seacoast, while Silas and Timothy remained behind.

John 8:59

So they picked up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid and went out of the temple area.

Proverbs 22:3

The astute see an evil and hide, while the naive continue on and pay the penalty.

Psalm 55:12

treachery is in its midst; oppression and fraud never leave its streets.

1 Samuel 20:19

On the third day you will be missed all the more. Go to the spot where you hid on the other occasion and wait near the mound there.

1 Samuel 20:6

If it turns out that your father misses me, say, ‘David urged me to let him go on short notice to his city Bethlehem, because his whole clan is holding its seasonal sacrifice there.’

2 Kings 4:23

He asked, “Why are you going to him today? It is neither the new moon nor the sabbath.” But she said, “It is all right.”

1 Samuel 20:4

Jonathan then said to David, “I will do whatever you say.”

1 Samuel 20:18

Jonathan then said to him: “Tomorrow is the new moon; you will be missed, since your place will be vacant.

1 Samuel 20:24

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,

1 Samuel 20:27

On the next day, the second day of the month, David’s place was still vacant. So Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why has the son of Jesse not come to table yesterday or today?”

Amos 8:5

“When will the new moon be over,” you ask, “that we may sell our grain, And the sabbath, that we may open the grain-bins? We will diminish the ephah, add to the shekel, and fix our scales for cheating!