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1 Samuel 20:18

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Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon, and you will be missed if your seat is empty.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then Jonathan said unto him, To-morrow is the new moon: and thou wilt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.

KJV

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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This verse in 1 Samuel 20

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

thou shalt be missed, because thy seat

on 1 Samuel 20:18-19

Jonathan restates the plan David already laid out at verse 5, then adds the meeting point for verse 19, the stone Ezel, and a three day span for David to stay hidden before returning to that place. The name Ezel is otherwise unknown in Scripture, and older readers who take it to mean departure treat the naming as fitting rather than as proof of anything. The plan now has a place, a signal yet to come, and a deadline, all arranged before either man knows what Saul will actually do.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Then Jonathan said to David, tomorrow is the new moon,.... The first day of the month, as David had before observed, 1Sa 20:5, and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty; or be inquired after, because not in his usual place at mealtime.

The words behind it

9 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֹּֽאמֶר־and he said

    vaiyomer-H559 →5305 times

  • ל֥וֹto <the> him

    lo

  • יְהוֹנָתָ֖ןJonathan

    yehonatanH3083 →81 times

  • מָחָ֣ר[will be] tomorrow

    macharH4279 →52 times

  • חֹ֑דֶשׁa new moon

    chodeshH2320 →284 times

  • וְנִפְקַ֕דְתָּand you will be missed

    venifkadtaH6485 →303 times

  • כִּ֥יif

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • יִפָּקֵ֖דit will be empty

    yipakedH6485 →303 times

  • מוֹשָׁבֶֽךָ׃seat your

    moshavekhaH4186 →44 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

6 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 20:5

    So David told him, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I am supposed to dine with the king. Instead, let me go and hide in the field until the third evening from now.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 10:10

      And on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to serve as a reminder for you…

    • 1 Samuel 19:2

      so he warned David, saying, “My father Saul intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning; find a secret place and hide there.

    • Numbers 28:11

      At the beginning of every month, you are to present to the LORD a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all unblemished,

    • Psalms 81:3

      Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.

    • 1 Samuel 20:19

      When you have stayed three days, hurry down to the place you hid on the day this trouble began, and remain beside the stone Ezel.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 20:25

    He sat in his usual place by the wall, opposite Jonathan and beside Abner, but David’s place was empty.

    it leads to

    • Judges 16:20

      Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that…

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Samuel

David and Jonathan — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
David and Jonathan — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Books of Samuel.

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