Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
1 Samuel 20:20
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I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as if I were aiming at a target.
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And I will shoot three arrows on the side [thereof], as though I shot at a mark.
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I will shoot three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a mark.
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And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark.
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1 Samuel 20
18 Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
19 When you have stayed three days, hurry down to the place you hid on the day this trouble began, and remain beside the stone Ezel.
20 I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as if I were aiming at a target.
21 Then I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ Now, if I expressly say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them,’ then come, because as surely as the LORD lives, it is safe for you, and there is no danger.
22 But if I say to the young man, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ then you must go, for the LORD has sent you away.
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