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1 Samuel 20:5

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David said to Jonathan, Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.

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Bethlehem was David’s family town in Judah, where he proposed attending the customary new-moon sacrifice with his clan, providing a plausible explanation for his

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1 Samuel 20:5 mentions Bethlehem and Naioth.

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