1-Samuel - 20:39

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39 But the boy didn't know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

Verse In-Depth

Explanation and meaning of 1-Samuel 20:39.

Differing Translations

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But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
But the lad knew not anything: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
And he knew not at all what was doing: for only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
And the lad knew nothing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
And the youth hath not known anything, only Jonathan and David knew the word.
But the boy had no idea what was going on; only Jonathan and David had knowledge of it.
And he did not understand at all what was happening. For only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

But the lad knew not anything,.... What was meant by shooting the arrows, and by shooting them beyond where he was, and by bidding him make haste to bring them:
only Jonathan and David knew the matter; what was signified by them, those being signs agreed upon between them.

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