1 Samuel 20:28

28 Jonathan answered, “David earnestly asked me for permission to go to Bethlehem.

1 Samuel 20:28 in Other Translations

KJV
28 And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem:
ESV
28 Jonathan answered Saul, "David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem.
NLT
28 Jonathan replied, “David earnestly asked me if he could go to Bethlehem.
MSG
28 Jonathan said, "David asked my special permission to go to Bethlehem.
CSB
28 Jonathan answered, "David asked for my permission to go to Bethlehem.

1 Samuel 20:28 In-Context

26 Saul said nothing that day, for he thought, “Something must have happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”
27 But the next day, the second day of the month, David’s place was empty again. Then Saul said to his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”
28 Jonathan answered, “David earnestly asked me for permission to go to Bethlehem.
29 He said, ‘Let me go, because our family is observing a sacrifice in the town and my brother has ordered me to be there. If I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away to see my brothers.’ That is why he has not come to the king’s table.”
30 Saul’s anger flared up at Jonathan and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don’t I know that you have sided with the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you?

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