1 Samuel 20:26-28

Revised Geneva Translation

²⁶ And Saul said nothing that day. For he thought, “Something has befallen him. He is not clean. Surely, he was not purified.”

²⁷ But the next day, which was the second day of the month, David’s place was empty again. And Saul said to Jonathan, his son, “Why does not the son of Jesse come to eat, neither yesterday nor today?”

²⁸ And Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly asked permission of me to go to Bethlehem.