1 Samuel 20:25-27

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁵ And when the king sat down upon his chair (according to custom) which was beside the wall, Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place appeared empty.

²⁶ And Saul said nothing that day, for he thought it might have happened to him, that he was not clean, nor purified.

²⁷ And when the second day after the new moon was come, David's place appeared empty again. And Saul said to Jonathan his son: Why cometh not the son of Isai to meat neither yesterday nor to day?