1 Samuel 20:5

20:5 David said to Jonathan, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and I am certainly expected to join the king for a meal. ¹  You must send me away so I can hide in the field until the third evening from now.

1 Samuel 20:19

20:19 On the third day ²  you should go down quickly ³  and come to the place where you hid yourself the day this all started. ⁴  Stay near the stone Ezel.

[20:5]  ¹ tn Heb “and I must surely sit with the king to eat.” The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.

[20:19]  ² tc Heb “you will do [something] a third time.” The translation assumes an emendation of the verb from שִׁלַּשְׁתָּ (shillashta, “to do a third time”) to שִׁלִּישִׁית (shillishit, “[on the] third [day]”).

[20:19]  ³ tn Heb “you must go down greatly.” See Judg 19:11 for the same idiom.

[20:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “on the day of the deed.” This probably refers to the incident recorded in 19:2.