1 Samuël 20:37

Staten Vertaling

Toen de jongen tot aan de plaats des pijls, dien Jonathan geschoten had, gekomen was, zo riep Jonathan den jongen na, en zeide: Is niet de pijl van u af en verder?

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
En toen de jongen kwam aan de plaats, waarheen Jonathan den pijl geschoten had, riep Jonathan hem na en sprak: De pijl ligt derwaarts Vr u.

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
Terwijl nu de jongen heenliep, schoot hij een pijl af, over hem heen; en toen de jongen aan de plaats was gekomen waar de pijl dien Jonathan had afgeschoten lag, riep Jonathan den jongen na: Ligt de pijl niet verder van u weg?

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot,.... To the mark which he told him he should shoot at, and whereabout he might expect to find the arrow:

Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, [is] not the arrow beyond thee? he cried with a loud voice and said this, not so much that the lad might hear him, but that David, who lay hid near the place, might hear him; so that if they had no opportunity of seeing and conversing with each other through any person going by at that time, David might know by this sign that evil was determined against him, and must flee for his life; the Syriac and Vulgate Latin versions read, "behold, the arrow is beyond thee"; so Noldius k.

k Concord. Ebr. Part. p. 265. No. 1141.