28 Jonathan then answered Saul, “(A)David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem, 29 for he said, ‘Please [a]let me go, since our family has a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to attend. And now, if I have found favor in your sight, please let me get away that I may see my brothers.’ For this reason he has not come to the king’s table.”

Saul Is Angry with Jonathan

30 Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan and he said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you are choosing the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 20:29 Lit send me away