But the boy didn’t know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
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But the boy didn’t know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
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But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
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But the lad knew not any thing; only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Sa 20:39 But the lad knew not any thing:…
1Sa 20:39 But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
Ver. 39. But the lad knew not anything.] What a sweet saying is that of our Saviour: "Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you." {Joh 15:15}
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But the lad knew not anything,.... What was meant…
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.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.