1 SAMUEL 20:6 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Beth–lehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.”
But let me go that I may hide myself in the field until the evening of the third day — David's plan (*v'anu ashmirah et sadai ad erev hayom hashilishi*) is to absent himself, to hide in the countryside and observe how Saul reacts to his non-appearance. The three-day period creates a space for testing, a time in which Jonathan can gauge his father's true feelings. David's *anu asmirah*, I will hide, invokes the practice of fugitive concealment, hiding as survival strategy.
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