1 Samuel 20:25

New English Translation

²⁵The 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.

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 (vay^eqaddem, “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.”

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