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


In Context

23 as to the thing which we have spoken, I and thou, lo, Jehovah is between me and thee — unto the age.'

24 And David is hidden in the field, and it is the new moon, and the king sitteth down by the food to eat,

25 and the king sitteth on his seat, as time by time, on a seat by the wall, and Jonathan riseth, and Abner sitteth at the side of Saul, and David's place is looked after.

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

27 And it cometh to pass on the second morrow of the new moon, that David's place is looked after, and Saul saith unto Jonathan his son, 'Wherefore hath the son of Jesse not come in, either yesterday or to-day, unto the food?'

28 And Jonathan answereth Saul, 'David hath been earnestly asked of me unto Beth-Lehem,

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 World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:26Nevertheless Saul didn't say anything that day: for he thought, |Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean.|

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.