1 Samuel 20:29

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

katanya: Biarkanlah aku pergi, sebab ada upacara pengorbanan bagi kaum kami di kota, dan saudara-saudaraku sendirilah yang memanggil aku. Oleh sebab itu, jika engkau mengasihi aku, berilah izin kepadaku untuk menengok saudara-saudaraku. Itulah sebabnya ia tidak datang ke perjamuan raja."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
katanya: Biarkanlah aku pergi, sebab ada upacara pengorbanan bagi kaum kami di kota, dan saudara-saudaraku sendirilah yang memanggil aku. Oleh sebab itu, jika engkau mengasihi aku, berilah izin kepadaku untuk menengok saudara-saudaraku. Itulah sebabnya ia tidak datang ke perjamuan raja."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
katanya: Berilah kiranya aku pergi, karena pada bangsa kami adalah korban di dalam negeri, dan abangku sendiri sudah berpesan kepadaku; sebab itu, jikalau kiranya aku sudah beroleh keridlaanmu, maafkanlah aku, supaya boleh aku pergi mendapatkan saudara-saudaraku. Maka itulah sebabnya tiada ia hadir kepada santapan tuanku.

Contextual Overview

²⁴ And so Dauid hid him selfe in the fielde: And when the newe moone was come, the king sate him downe to eate meate. ²⁵ And the king sate as at other times vpon his seate, euen vpon his seate by the wall: And Ionathan arose, and Abner sate by Sauls syde, and Dauids place was emptie. ²⁶ Neuerthelesse, Saul sayde nothing at all that day: For he thought, Some thing hath befallen him, though he were cleane. ²⁷ But on the morowe, whiche was the second day of the newe moone, Dauids place was emptie againe: And Saul sayde vnto Ionathan his sonne, Wherfore commeth not that sonne of Isai to meate, neither yesterday nor to day? ²⁸ And Ionathan aunswered vnto Saul: Dauid asked licence of me to go to Bethlehem. ²⁹ For he sayd: Let me go I pray thee, for our kinred doth hold an offering in the citie, and my brother hath sent for me: and therfore if I haue found fauour in thyne eyes, let me go I pray thee, and see my brethren. This is the cause that he commeth not vnto the kinges table. ³⁰ Then was Saul angry with Ionathan, and sayd vnto him: Thou sonne of the wicked rebellious woman, do not I knowe that thou hast chosen the sonne of Isai vnto thyne owne rebuke, and vnto the rebuke and shame of thy mother? ³¹ For as long as the sonne of Isai liueth vpon the earth, thou shalt not be stablished, nor yet thy kingdome: Wherfore nowe send and fet him vnto me, for he is the childe of death. ³² And Ionathan aunswered vnto Saul his father, and sayde to him: Wherfore should he dye? what hath he done? ³³ And Saul lift vp a speare to hit him, wherby Ionathan wist well that it was vtterly determined of his father to slay Dauid.

Bible Verse Review
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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.