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1 Samuel 20:19-21
New English Translation
1 Samuel 20:19-21
New English Translation
19 On the third day[a] you should go down quickly[b] and come to the place where you hid yourself the day this all started.[c] Stay near the stone Ezel. 20 I will shoot three arrows near it, as though I were shooting at a target. 21 When I send a boy after them, I will say, ‘Go and find the arrows.’ If I say to the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you;[d] get them,’ then come back. For as surely as the Lord lives, you will be safe and there will be no problem.
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- 1 Samuel 20:19 tc Heb “you will do [something] a third time.” The translation assumes an emendation of the verb from שִׁלַּשְׁתָּ (shillashta, “to do a third time”) to שִׁלִּישִׁית (shillishit, “[on the] third [day]”).
- 1 Samuel 20:19 tn Heb “you must go down greatly.” See Judg 19:11 for the same idiom.
- 1 Samuel 20:19 tn Heb “on the day of the deed.” This probably refers to the incident recorded in 19:2.
- 1 Samuel 20:21 tn Heb “from you and here.”
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