1 Samuël 20:29

Staten Vertaling

En hij zeide: Laat mij toch gaan; want ons geslacht heeft een offer in de stad, en mijn broeder heeft het mij zelfs geboden; heb ik nu genade in uw ogen gevonden, laat mij toch ontslagen zijn, dat ik mijn broeders zie; hierom is hij aan des konings tafel niet gekomen.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
en sprak: Laat mij gaan, want ons geslacht heeft te offeren in de stad, en mijn broeder zelf heeft het mij geboden: heb ik nu voor uwe ogen genade gevonden, zo zal ik heengaan en mijne broeders zien. Daarom is hij niet gekomen tot des konings tafel.

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
Hij zeide: Laat mij toch gaan; want wij hebben een familieoffer in de stad, en mijn broeders hebben mij daartoe ontboden. Laat mij dus, indien ik gunst in uw oog gevonden heb, stillekens heengaan, om mijn broeders te bezoeken. Daarom is hij niet aan 's konings tafel verschenen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my brother: 1 Samuel 17:28

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 6:14 - offered 1 Samuel 16:2 - I am come Esther 8:5 - if I

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said, let me go, I pray thee, for our family hath a sacrifice in the city,.... In the city of Bethlehem where they lived, a peace offering on account of the new moon, and as an anniversary thanksgiving for the mercies of the year, 1 Samuel 20:6; and seeing, though he was not at the feast in one place, he observed it in another, his absence at court was the more excusable; and the rather, since it was kept by him with his own family, in his own city: besides, it is added,

and my brother he hath commanded me [to be there]; his elder brother Eliab, whose commands, as a younger brother, he judged he ought to obey; it is probable his father was now dead, since no mention is made of him, and his elder brother took upon him the command of the family:

and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, see my brethren: he should take it as a favour to have leave to depart, and be free for the present from waiting upon the king at court, and so have an opportunity of seeing his brethren, for which he had a great desire; having not seen them a long time, not even since he saw them in the camp, when he slew Goliath:

therefore he cometh not to the king's table: this was the reason of it, at least one reason of it, and Jonathan was not obliged to tell the whole.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 20:29. Our family hath a sacrifice — Such sacrifices were undoubtedly festal ones; the beasts slain for the occasion were first offered to God, and their blood poured out before him; afterwards all that were bidden to the feast ate of the flesh. This was a family entertainment, at the commencement of which God was peculiarly honoured.