1 Samuel 20:25-27

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁵ The king sat upon his seat, as at other times, upon the seat by the wall; Jonathan sat opposite,^[a] and Abner sat by Saul’s side, but David’s place was empty.

²⁶ Yet Saul did not say anything that day; for he thought, “Something has befallen him; he is not clean, surely he is not clean.” ²⁷ But on the second day, the morrow after the new moon, David’s place was empty. And Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why has not the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”