1 Samuel 20:26

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Saul did not say anything that day, for he thought, “Something has befallen him; he is not clean; surely he is not clean.”

Cross References

Leviticus 11:24

“By these you shall become unclean; whoever touches the carcass of any of them shall be unclean until the evening,

Leviticus 11:27

All that walk on their paws, among the animals that walk on all fours, are unclean for you; whoever touches the carcass of any of them shall be unclean until the evening,

Leviticus 11:31

These are unclean for you among all that swarm; whoever touches one of them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:40

Those who eat of its carcass shall wash their clothes and be unclean until the evening, and those who carry the carcass shall wash their clothes and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15:5

Anyone who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.

Numbers 19:16

Whoever in the open field touches one who has been killed by a sword or who has died naturally, or a human bone, or a grave shall be unclean seven days.

1 Samuel 16:5

He said, “Peaceably. I have come to sacrifice to the Lord; sanctify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” And he sanctified Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

1 Samuel 20:27

But on the second day, the day after the new moon, David’s place was empty. And Saul said to his son Jonathan, “Why has the son of Jesse not come to the feast, either yesterday or today?”