1 Samuel 20:24

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

And David hid in the field; and the New Moon had come, and the king sat down by the food to eat.

Latin

Absconditus est ergo David in agro, et venerunt calendæ, et sedit rex ad comedendum panem.

Hebrew

English

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

Theme notes and profiles

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.
Psalm 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 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.
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.
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!

David: Anointed king of Israel, ancestor of Jesus Christ