First Book of Kings (Author Compiled by Isaias from records of Samuel, David, Nathan, and Gad.)
20:5And David said to Jonathan: Behold to morrow is the new moon, and I, according to custom, am wont to sit beside the king to eat: let me go then that I may be hid in the field till the evening of the third day.
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