1 Samuel 20:25-27

GOD’S WORD Translation

²⁵ He sat in his usual seat by the wall, while Jonathan stood. Abner sat beside Saul, but David’s place was empty. ²⁶ Saul didn’t say anything that day, thinking, “Something has happened to him so that he’s unclean.^[a] He must be unclean.” ²⁷ But on the second day of the month, David’s place was still empty.

Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t Jesse’s son come to the meal either yesterday or today?”