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29 He said, ‘Send me away, please, for our clan sacrifice is in the city, and my brother commanded[a] me to be present. So then, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me slip away and see my brothers.’ Therefore he has not come to the table of the king.” 30 Then Saul became angry[b] at Jonathan and said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman![c] Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your shame and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness? 31 For as long as[d] the son of Jesse is alive on the earth, you and your kingdom will not be established! So then, send and bring him to me, for he will surely die!”[e]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 20:29 Or “urged”
  2. 1 Samuel 20:30 Literally “the nose of Saul became hot”
  3. 1 Samuel 20:30 Or “bastard of a wayward woman” (HALOT 796)
  4. 1 Samuel 20:31 Literally “all the days which”
  5. 1 Samuel 20:31 Literally “he is a son of death”

29 He said, ‘Let me go, because our family is observing a sacrifice(A) in the town and my brother has ordered me to be there. If I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away to see my brothers.’ That is why he has not come to the king’s table.”

30 Saul’s anger flared up at Jonathan and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don’t I know that you have sided with the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you? 31 As long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingdom(B) will be established. Now send someone to bring him to me, for he must die!”

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