1 Samuel 20:25-27

International Standard Version

²⁵ The king sat down at his place as before, in the seat by the wall. Jonathan stood while Abner sat next to Saul, but David’s place was empty. ²⁶ Saul didn’t say anything that day because he told himself,^[a] “Something has happened; he’s unclean; surely he’s not clean.”

²⁷ But the next day, on the second day of the New Moon, David’s place was empty, and so Saul told his son Jonathan, “Why didn’t Jesse’s son come to the festival, either yesterday or today?”