Holy Scripture

1 Samuel 20:26

A church father on this verse
“He was thinking that perhaps it had happened to him, etc. For the Jews thought that Jesus was neither clean nor purified from sins because he had violated the Sabbath and done other things contrary to the decrees of the law or rather of their own traditions, and taught them as well. Therefore, they rightly found nothi…”
Bede, 8th c. — Commentary on Samuel

Source: Septuagint

Original

26And Saul said nothing on that day, for he said, It seems to have fallen out that he is not clean, because he has not purified himself.

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24So David hides himself in the field, and the new month arrives, and the king comes to the table to eat.

25And he sat upon his seat as in former times, even on his seat by the wall, and he went before Jonathan; and Abner sat on one side of Saul, and the place of David was empty.

— 1 Samuel 20:26 —

27And it came to pass on the morrow, on the second day of the month, that the place of David was empty; and Saul said to Jonathan his son, Why has not the son of Jesse attended both yesterday and today at the table?

28And Jonathan answered Saul, and said to him, David asked leave of me to go as far as Bethlehem his city;

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