1 Samuel 20:26
And Saul has not spoken anything on that day, for he said, “It [is] an accident; he is not clean—surely not clean.”
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Leviticus 11:24And you are made unclean by these; anyone who is coming against their carcass is unclean until the evening;
Leviticus 11:31these [are] the unclean to you among all which are teeming; anyone who is coming against them in their death is unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 15:5and anyone who comes against his bed washes his garments, and has bathed with water, and been unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 15:19And when a woman has discharging—blood is her discharge in her flesh—she is in her separation [for] seven days, and anyone who is coming against her is unclean until the evening.
1 Samuel 16:5And he says, “Peace; I have come to sacrifice to YHWH, sanctify yourselves, and you have come in with me to the sacrifice”; and he sanctifies Jesse and his sons, and calls them to the sacrifice.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 20:25-35
Jonathan Excuses David to Saul. ( b. c. 1058.) 24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat. 25 And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty. 26 Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean. 27 And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of… Read the whole commentary →