26Nevertheless Saul didn't say anything that day: for he thought, |Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean.|


In Context

23 Concerning the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, Yahweh is between you and me forever.|

24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat food.

25 The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul's side: but David's place was empty.

26 Nevertheless Saul didn't say anything that day: for he thought, |Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean.|

27 It happened on the next day after the new moon, the second day, that David's place was empty. Saul said to Jonathan his son, |Why doesn't the son of Jesse come to eat, neither yesterday, nor today?|

28 Jonathan answered Saul, |David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem.

1 Samuel 20:26 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

20:26Saul said nothing that day, for he thought, "Something must have happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean-surely he is unclean."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:26Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he [is] not clean.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:26And Saul said nothing that day, for he thought it might have happened to him, that he was not clean, nor purified.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:26Nevertheless Saul spake not anything that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:26And Saul said nothing that day; for he thought, Something has befallen him, that he is not clean: surely he is not clean.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:26Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:26Nevertheless Saul spoke not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:26And Saul hath not spoken anything on that day, for he said, 'It is an accident; he is not clean — surely not clean.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:26Nevertheless Saul spoke not any thing that day: for he thought, Something has befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.