1 Samuel 20:5
Good News Translation
"Tomorrow is the New Moon Festival," David replied, "and I am supposed to eat with the king. But if it's all right with you, I will go and hide in the fields until the evening of the day after tomorrow.

New Revised Standard Version
David said to Jonathan, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at the meal; but let me go, so that I may hide in the field until the third evening.

Contemporary English Version
David answered: Tomorrow is the New Moon Festival, and I'm supposed to eat dinner with your father. But instead, I'll hide in a field until the evening of the next day.

New American Bible
David answered: “Tomorrow is the new moon, when I should in fact dine with the king. Let me go and hide in the open country until evening.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And David said to Jonathan: Behold to morrow is the new moon, and I, according to custom, am wont to sit beside the king to eat: let me go then that I may be hid in the field till the evening of the third day.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And David said to Jonathan: Behold to morrow is the new moon, and I, according to custom, am wont to sit beside the king to eat: let me go then that I may be hid in the field till the evening of the third day.

1 Samuel 20:6 If thy father look and inquire for me, thou shalt answer him: David asked me that he might run to Bethlehem, his own city: because there are solemn sacrifices there for all of his tribe.

Numbers 10:10 If at any time you shall have a banquet, and on your festival days, and on the first days of your months, you shall sound the trumpets over the holocausts, and the sacrifices of peace offerings, that they may be to you for a remembrance of your God. I am the Lord your God.

Numbers 28:11 And on the first day of the month you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without blemish,

2 Kings 4:23 And he said to her: Why dost thou go to him? to day is neither new moon nor sabbath. She answered: I will go.

Psalm 81:3 Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity.

Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of a festival day or of the new moon or of the sabbaths,

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1 Samuel 20:19 For thy seat will be empty till after to morrow. So thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou must he hid, on the day when it is lawful to work, and thou shalt remain beside the stone, which is called Ezel.

1 Samuel 19:2 And Jonathan told David, saying: Saul, my father, seeketh to kill thee: wherefore look to thyself, I beseech thee, in the morning and thou shalt abide in a secret place, and shalt be hid.

Psalm 55:12 For if my enemy had reviled me, I would verily have borne with it. And if he that hated me had spoken great things against me, I would perhaps have hidden my self from him.

Proverbs 22:3 The prudent man saw the evil, and hid himself: the simple passed on, and suffered loss.

John 8:59 They took up stones therefore to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

Acts 17:14 And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul, to go unto the sea: but Silas and Timothy remained there.

Context
Jonathan Helps David
4And Jonathan said to David: Whatsoever thy soul shall say to me, I will do for thee. 5And David said to Jonathan: Behold to morrow is the new moon, and I, according to custom, am wont to sit beside the king to eat: let me go then that I may be hid in the field till the evening of the third day.6If thy father look and inquire for me, thou shalt answer him: David asked me that he might run to Bethlehem, his own city: because there are solemn sacrifices there for all of his tribe.…
Cross References
Numbers 10:10
If at any time you shall have a banquet, and on your festival days, and on the first days of your months, you shall sound the trumpets over the holocausts, and the sacrifices of peace offerings, that they may be to you for a remembrance of your God. I am the Lord your God.

Numbers 28:11
And on the first day of the month you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without blemish,

1 Samuel 19:2
And Jonathan told David, saying: Saul, my father, seeketh to kill thee: wherefore look to thyself, I beseech thee, in the morning and thou shalt abide in a secret place, and shalt be hid.

1 Samuel 20:4
And Jonathan said to David: Whatsoever thy soul shall say to me, I will do for thee.

1 Samuel 20:18
And Jonathan said to him: To morrow is the new moon, and thou wilt be missed:

1 Samuel 20:24
So David was hid in the field, and the new moon came, and the king sat down to eat bread.

1 Samuel 20:27
And when the second day after the new moon was come, David's place appeared empty again. And Saul said to Jonathan, his son: Why cometh not the son of Isai to meat neither yesterday, nor to day?

Amos 8:5
Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail,

1 Samuel 20:4
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