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Good News Translation

1 Samuel 20:39

not knowing what it all meant; only Jonathan and David knew.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Arrow;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Home;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jonathan;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Samuel, Books of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jonathan ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Jonathan;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He did not know anything; only Jonathan and David knew the arrangement.
Hebrew Names Version
But the boy didn't know anything: only Yonatan and David knew the matter.
King James Version
But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
Lexham English Bible
But the boy did not know anything about this; only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
English Standard Version
But the boy knew nothing. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
New Century Version
(The boy knew nothing about what this meant; only Jonathan and David knew.)
New English Translation
(Now the servant did not understand any of this. Only Jonathan and David knew what was going on.)
Amplified Bible
But the boy was not aware of anything; only Jonathan and David knew about the matter.
New American Standard Bible
But the boy was not aware of anything; only Jonathan and David knew about the matter.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But the boy knewe nothing: onely Ionathan and Dauid knew the matter.
Legacy Standard Bible
But the young man did not know of anything; only Jonathan and David knew about the matter.
Contemporary English Version
but he had no idea about what was going on. Only Jonathan and David knew.
Complete Jewish Bible
but the boy didn't understand anything about the matter — only Y'honatan and David understood.
Darby Translation
And the lad knew nothing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
Easy-to-Read Version
The boy knew nothing about what went on. Only Jonathan and David knew.
George Lamsa Translation
But the lad knew not anything; only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
Literal Translation
And the boy did not know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the boy knewe nothinge, onely Ionathas and Dauid knewe of ye matter.
American Standard Version
But the lad knew not anything: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
Bible in Basic English
But the boy had no idea what was going on; only Jonathan and David had knowledge of it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But the lad wist nothing of the matter, only Ionathan an Dauid wist it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But the lad knew not any thing; only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
King James Version (1611)
But the lad knew not any thing: onely Ionathan and Dauid knew the matter.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the boy knew nothing, only Jonathan and David knew.
English Revised Version
But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
Berean Standard Bible
But the boy did not know anything; only Jonathan and David knew the arrangement.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and outerli he wiste not what was doon; for oonli Jonathas and Dauid knewen the thing.
Young's Literal Translation
And the youth hath not known anything, only Jonathan and David knew the word.
Update Bible Version
But the lad didn't know anything: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
Webster's Bible Translation
But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
World English Bible
But the boy didn't know anything: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
New King James Version
But the lad did not know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew of the matter.
New Living Translation
He, of course, suspected nothing; only Jonathan and David understood the signal.
New Life Bible
The boy knew nothing. Only Jonathan and David knew what had happened.
New Revised Standard
But the boy knew nothing; only Jonathan and David knew the arrangement.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, the lad, knew, nothing, only Jonathan and David, knew the matter.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he knew not at all what was doing: for only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
Revised Standard Version
But the lad knew nothing; only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But the lad was not aware of anything; only Jonathan and David knew about the matter.

Contextual Overview

35 The following morning Jonathan went to the fields to meet David, as they had agreed. He took a young boy with him 36 and said to him, "Run and find the arrows I'm going to shoot." The boy ran, and Jonathan shot an arrow beyond him. 37 When the boy reached the place where the arrow had fallen, Jonathan shouted to him, "The arrow is farther on! 38 Don't just stand there! Hurry up!" The boy picked up the arrow and returned to his master, 39 not knowing what it all meant; only Jonathan and David knew. 40 Jonathan gave his weapons to the boy and told him to take them back to town. 41 After the boy had left, David got up from behind the pile of stones, fell on his knees and bowed with his face to the ground three times. Both he and Jonathan were crying as they kissed each other; David's grief was even greater than Jonathan's. 42 Then Jonathan said to David, "God be with you. The Lord will make sure that you and I, and your descendants and mine, will forever keep the sacred promise we have made to each other." Then David left, and Jonathan went back to the town.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 9:27 - Bid the servant

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But the lad knew not anything,.... What was meant by shooting the arrows, and by shooting them beyond where he was, and by bidding him make haste to bring them:

only Jonathan and David knew the matter; what was signified by them, those being signs agreed upon between them.


 
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