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1 Samuel 20:25-27
New English Translation
1 Samuel 20:25-27
New English Translation
25 The king sat down in his usual place by the wall, with Jonathan opposite him[a] and Abner at his side.[b] But David’s place was vacant. 26 However, Saul said nothing about it[c] that day, for he thought,[d] “Something has happened to make him ceremonially unclean. Yes, he must be unclean.” 27 But the next morning, the second day of the new moon, David’s place was still vacant. So Saul said to his son Jonathan, “Why has Jesse’s son not come to the meal yesterday or today?”
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- 1 Samuel 20:25 tc Heb “and Jonathan arose.” Instead of MT’s וַיָּקָם (vayyaqom, “and he arose”; from the hollow verbal root קוּם, qum), the translation assumes a reading וַיְקַדֵּם (vayeqaddem, “and he was in front of”; from the verbal root קָדַם, qadam). See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 338.
- 1 Samuel 20:25 tn Heb “and Abner sat at the side of Saul.”
- 1 Samuel 20:26 tn The words “about it” are not present in the Hebrew text, although they are implied.
- 1 Samuel 20:26 tn Heb “said,” that is, to himself.
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