1 Samuel 20:24

KJV1611 – Modern English

So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat down to eat food.

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  • Ps 50:16-21 : 16 But to the wicked God says, What right do you have to declare My statutes, or to take My covenant in your mouth? 17 Seeing you hate instruction, and cast My words behind you. 18 When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers. 19 You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit. 20 You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son. 21 These things you have done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether like you: but I will reprove you, and set them in order before your eyes.
  • Prov 4:17 : 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
  • Prov 15:17 : 17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fatted ox with hatred.
  • Prov 17:1 : 1 Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.
  • Prov 21:3 : 3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
  • Prov 21:27 : 27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with an evil intent?
  • Isa 1:11-15 : 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? says the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals; and I delight not in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of goats. 12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts? 13 Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble to me; I am weary to bear them. 15 And when you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: indeed, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
  • Zech 7:6 : 6 And when you ate and when you drank, did you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
  • John 18:28 : 28 Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the hall of judgment, and it was early. But they themselves did not go into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.

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  • 1 Sam 20:5-6
    2 verses
    86%

    5 And David said to Jonathan, Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at the meal: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field until the third day at evening.

    6 If your father at all misses me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.

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    25 And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty.

    26 Nevertheless Saul spoke not anything that day: for he thought, Something has befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.

    27 And it came to pass on the next day, which was the second day of the month, that David's place was empty: and Saul said to Jonathan his son, Why doesn't the son of Jesse come to the meal, neither yesterday nor today?

    28 And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem:

    29 And he said, Let me go, please; for our family has a sacrifice in the city; and my brother has commanded me to be there: and now, if I have found favor in your eyes, let me go, I pray you, and see my brothers. Therefore he does not come to the king's table.

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    18 Then Jonathan said to David, Tomorrow is the new moon: and you shall be missed, because your seat will be empty.

    19 And when you have stayed three days, then you shall quickly go down and come to the place where you hid yourself when the business was in hand, and shall remain by the stone Ezel.

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    33 And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him, whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined by his father to slay David.

    34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no food the second day of the month: for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.

    35 And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him.

  • 35 And when all the people came to cause David to eat food while it was yet day, David swore, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread or anything else until the sun is down.

  • 1 Sam 19:1-3
    3 verses
    71%

    1 And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.

    2 But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted greatly in David; and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill you; now therefore, I pray you, be on guard until the morning, and stay in a secret place, and hide yourself:

    3 And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak with my father about you; and what I observe, that I will tell you.

  • 20 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men who were with him a feast.

  • 1 Sam 24:3-4
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    3 And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. And David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.

    4 And the men of David said to him, Behold, the day of which the LORD said to you, Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do to him as it seems good to you. Then David arose and cut off the edge of Saul's robe secretly.

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    24 The woman had a fat calf in the house; she hurried, killed it, and took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.

    25 And she brought it before Saul and his servants; and they ate. Then they rose up, and went away that night.

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    11 And Jonathan said to David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field.

    12 And Jonathan said to David, O LORD God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about tomorrow any time, or the third day, and behold, if there is good toward David, and I do not send to you, and show it to you;

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    23 And Samuel said to the cook, Bring the portion which I gave you, of which I said to you, Set it aside.

    24 And the cook took up the shoulder, and that which was on it, and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, Behold what is reserved! set it before you, and eat: for until this time it has been kept for you since I said, I have invited the people. So Saul ate with Samuel that day.

  • 22 And David swore to Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

  • 24 The men of Israel were distressed that day because Saul had placed the people under an oath, saying, "Cursed be the man who eats any food until evening, that I may avenge myself on my enemies." So none of the people tasted any food.

  • 1 Sam 26:3-5
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    3 And Saul camped on the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the road. But David remained in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul had come after him into the wilderness.

    4 David therefore sent out spies, and knew that Saul had indeed come.

    5 And David arose and came to the place where Saul had camped. And David saw where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his army. Saul lay within the camp, and the people were camped around him.

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    25 Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David; therefore, he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

    26 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men, intending to capture them.

  • 13 Then David went over to the other side and stood on the top of a hill a great distance away, a large space being between them.

  • 18 And they two made a covenant before the LORD; and David abode in the forest, and Jonathan went to his house.

  • 20 Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hand.

  • 20 Then Saul fell immediately full length on the ground, and was very afraid because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him, for he had eaten no bread all day nor all night.

  • 15 And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life; and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a forest.

  • 13 And Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

  • 20 Then David arose from the ground, washed, anointed himself, changed his clothing, came into the house of the LORD, and worshiped: then he went to his own house; when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate.

  • 7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past.

  • 10 And David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

  • 9 And David said to Saul, Why do you listen to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks your harm?

  • 1 And it came to pass, when Saul returned from following the Philistines, that it was told to him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi.

  • 1 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? What is my iniquity? And what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?

  • 13 Now when David called him, he ate and drank before him, and he made him drunk. And at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

  • 1 Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David and said to him, Why are you alone, and no man with you?

  • 10 And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the javelin, but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he drove the javelin into the wall; and David fled and escaped that night.

  • 6 So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there but the showbread, which was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day it was taken away.

  • 20 Now when the evening was come, he sat down with the twelve.

  • 10 Then David said, O LORD God of Israel, your servant has certainly heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.