1st Samuel Chapter 20 verse 18 Holy Bible
Then Jonathan said unto him, To-morrow is the new moon: and thou wilt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.
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Then Jonathan said to him, Tomorrow is the new moon: and it will be seen that you are not present, for there will be no one in your seat.
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And Jonathan said to him, To-morrow is the new moon; and thou wilt be missed, for thy seat will be empty;
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Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.
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Then Jonathan said to David, To-morrow is the new-moon: and thou wilt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.
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Then Jonathan said to him, Tomorrow is the new moon: and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
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And Jonathan saith to him, `To-morrow `is' new moon, and thou hast been looked after, for thy seat is looked after;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 18, 19. - Jonathan now arranges his plan for communicating the result to David. For when thou hast stayed three days, at which all the versions stumble, a slight alteration gives the right sense: "And on the third day." David on the third day was to go down quickly - Hebrew, "greatly, i.e. he was to go a long way down into the valley. The rendering quickly is taken from the Vulgate, but makes no sense. It did not matter whether David went fast or slow, as he was to hide there for some time, but it was important that David should be far away, so that no prying eye might chance to catch sight of him. When the business was in hand. Literally, "the day of the business," probably that narrated in 1 Samuel 19:2-7. The Septuagint, Vulgate, and Chaldee all understand "a working day," in opposition to a feast day; but "where thou didst hide thyself on a week day" gives no intelligible meaning. By the stone Ezel. As the name Ezel is formed from a verb signifying to go, some understand by it a road stone, a stone to mark the way.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) Thou shalt be missed.--Well then, resumes Jonathan--after the passionate conclusion of the solemn covenant betwixt the friends--the last trial shall be as you propose. At the State banquet of my father tomorrow your seat, as agreed upon, will be empty, then you and I--when King Saul misses you--will know the worst.
