26. And Saul said nothing that day, for he thought it might have happened to him, that he was not clean, nor purified.
27. And when the second day after the new moon was come, David's place appeared empty again. And Saul said to Jonathan his son: Why cometh not the son of Isai to meat neither yesterday nor to day?
28. And Jonathan answered Saul: He asked leave of me earnestly to go to Bethlehem,