1 Samuele 20:6

La Bibbia di Giovanni Diodati

Se pur tuo padre domanda di me, di’: Davide mi ha istantemente richiesto di poter andar correndo in Bet-lehem, sua città; perciocchè tutta la sua nazione fa quivi un sacrificio solenne.

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
Se tuo padre nota la mia assenza, tu gli dirai: "Davide mi ha pregato con insistenza di poter fare una scappata fino a Betlemme, sua citt, perch vi si celebra il sacrificio annuale per tutta la sua famiglia".

Riveduta Bibbia
Se tuo padre nota la mia assenza, tu gli dirai: Davide mi ha pregato istantemente di poter fare una corsa fino a Bethlehem, sua città, perché v’è il sacrifizio annuo per tutta la sua famiglia.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Bethlehem: 1 Samuel 17:58, John 7:42

sacrifice: or, feast, 1 Samuel 9:12, 1 Samuel 16:2-5

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 20:5 - the new moon 1 Samuel 20:28 - General Luke 2:4 - unto

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If thy father at all miss me,.... Or diligently inquires after me:

then say, David earnestly asked leave of me, that he might run to Bethlehem his city: the place of his birth, called the city of David, where he was born and had lived, Luke 2:4, which was not far from Gibeah, and whither he could soon run; and which shows the haste he proposed to make, and his eager desire to be there, and which also is signified by his earnest and importunate request; for all this might be true, and no lie of David, framed for an excuse; and after he had hid himself some time in the field, until it was evening, he might go to Bethlehem, and return soon enough to meet Jonathan in the field at the time fixed by them on the third day:

for [there] is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family; it was customary for the family of Jesse one day in a year, and as it should seem on a first day of the month, and perhaps the first day of the first month, or New Year's Day, to have an anniversary feast by way of gratitude and thankfulness for the mercies of the year past, and for the continuance of them for time to come; in which the family rejoiced together at the great goodness of God unto them, 1 Samuel 9:12.