1 Samuel 20:5
David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.
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4Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever your soul desires, I will even do it for you.”
Cross References
Numbers 10:10“Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am the LORD your God.”
1 Samuel 19:2Jonathan told David, saying, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, live in a secret place, and hide yourself.
1 Samuel 20:18Then Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
2 Kings 4:23He said, “Why would you want to go to him today? It is not a new moon or a Sabbath.” She said, “It’s all right.”
Psalms 81:3Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
John 8:59Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 20:2-9
David Consults Jonathan. ( b. c. 1058.) 1 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life? 2 And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will shew it me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so. 3 And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in… Read the whole commentary →