1 Samuel 20:24

So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat.

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KJV

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

ASV

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

YLT

And David is hidden in the field, and it is the new moon, and the king sitteth down by the food to eat,

DBT

And David hid himself in the field; and it was the new moon, and the king sat at table to eat.

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David therefore hid in the field, etc. Christ is hidden in Christians by faith so that He might not be seen by those who have learned only to know, believe, and love earthly and temporal things; and times have come in which the splendor of …

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Proverbs 15:17
Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
Isaiah 1:11–15
“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
Psalms 50:16–21
To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
Proverbs 17:1
Better a dry morsel in quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.
Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
Proverbs 21:3
To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Psalms 35:16
Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
Zechariah 7:6
And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?
Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable— how much more so when brought with ill intent!
John 18:28
Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.

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Who & where

PersonUnited MonarchyDavidSecond king of united Israel, shepherd-turned-monarch, ancestor of the Messiah, and traditional author of many Psalms.

About this book

David and Jonathan — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866) — public domain

1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Traditionally Samuel (with additions after his death by Nathan and Gad — cf. 1 Chr 29:29)
Date: Events c. 1050–1010 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 17:1
Better a dry morsel in quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.
leads to
- Proverbs 21:19
  Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Proverbs 15:17
  Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
- Psalms 37:16
  Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many who are wicked.
- Proverbs 21:9
  Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Through
Proverbs 15:17
Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
leads to
- Proverbs 17:1
  Better a dry morsel in quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.
Through
Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
leads to
- Proverbs 9:17
  “Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”
- Micah 6:12
  For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.
- Proverbs 20:17
  Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.

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