1 Samuel 20:24
So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat.
Context
This verse from 1 Samuel Chapter 20 connects to 10 cross-references. David confides to Jonathan that Saul seeks his life; Jonathan refuses to believe it and proposes a test using David's absence from the New Moon feast. They devise a signal with arrows to communicate; Saul's violent anger at David's absence …
Other Translations
So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat food.
And David is hidden in the field, and it is the new moon, and the king sitteth down by the food to eat,
So David went to a secret place in the country: and when the new moon came, the king took his place at the feast.
Cross References
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, …
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt …
And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: …
But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take …