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But David answered, “Your father knows very well that I am your friend. Your father said to himself, ‘Jonathan must not know about it. If he knows, he will tell David.’[a] But as surely as you and the Lord are alive, I am very close to death.”

Jonathan said to David, “I will do anything you want me to do.”

Then David said, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon celebration. I am supposed to eat with the king, but let me hide in the field until the evening.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 20:3 he will tell David This is from the ancient Greek version. The standard Hebrew text here has “he will be upset.”

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