1 Samuel 20:29 meaning and explanation
saying, ‘Please let me go, because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That is why he did not come to the king’s table.”
1 Samuel 20:29, Berean Standard Bible
Explanation preview
Jonathan speaks these words to Saul, explaining why David's seat at the New Moon meal is empty. The story he tells is the cover David himself proposed in verse 6: a clan sacrifice in Bethlehem, with David's brother summoning him.
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