_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?_ David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan. He could not remain in Naioth, because he had strong... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID UNTO HIM GOD FORBID; THOU SHALT NOT DIE: BEHOLD MY FATHER WILL DO NOTHING EITHER GREAT OR_ _ 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 I... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SAID UNTO JONATHAN, BEHOLD, TO MORROW IS THE NEW MOON, AND I SHOULD NOT FAIL TO SIT WITH THE KING AT MEAT: BUT LET ME GO, THAT I MAY HIDE MYSELF IN THE FIELD UNTO THE THIRD DAY AT EVEN._ Tomorrow is the new moon. The beginning of a new month or moon was always celebrated by special sacri... [ Continue Reading ]
_IF THY FATHER AT ALL MISS ME, THEN SAY, DAVID EARNESTLY ASKED LEAVE OF ME THAT HE MIGHT RUN TO BETHLEHEM HIS CITY: FOR THERE IS A YEARLY SACRIFICE THERE FOR ALL THE FAMILY._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JONATHAN SAID UNTO DAVID, COME, AND LET US GO OUT INTO THE FIELD. AND THEY WENT OUT BOTH OF THEM INTO THE FIELD._ Jonathan said ... Come, and let us go out into the field. The scene of this memorable conference was, as Porter describes ('Handbook,' p. 324), 'a shallow valley between Gibeah (Te... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JONATHAN SAID UNTO DAVID, O LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, WHEN I HAVE SOUNDED MY FATHER ABOUT TO MORROW ANY TIME, OR THE THIRD DAY, AND, BEHOLD, IF THERE BE GOOD TOWARD DAVID, AND I THEN SEND NOT UNTO THEE, AND SHEW IT THEE;_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN JONATHAN SAID TO DAVID, TO MORROW IS THE NEW MOON: AND THOU SHALT BE MISSED, BECAUSE THY SEAT WILL BE EMPTY._ Tomorrow is the new moon, х_ CHODESH_ (H2320)]. The first day of the lunar month was held as a festival among the Hebrews.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THOU HAST STAYED THREE DAYS, THEN THOU SHALT GO DOWN QUICKLY, AND COME TO THE PLACE WHERE THOU DIDST HIDE THYSELF WHEN THE BUSINESS WAS IN HAND, AND SHALT REMAIN BY THE STONE EZEL._ When thou hast stayed three days either with your family at Beth lehem or wherever you find it WHEN THOU HA... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I WILL SHOOT THREE ARROWS ON THE SIDE THEREOF, AS THOUGH I SHOT AT A MARK._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AS TOUCHING THE MATTER WHICH THOU AND I HAVE SPOKEN OF, BEHOLD, THE LORD BE BETWEEN THEE AND ME FOR EVER._ As touching the matter which thou and I have spoken of. The plan being concerted, the friends separated for a time, and the amiable character of Jonathan again peers out in his parting al... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO DAVID HID HIMSELF IN THE FIELD: AND WHEN THE NEW MOON WAS COME, THE KING SAT HIM DOWN TO EAT MEAT._ The king sat him down to eat meat, х_ LECHEM_ (H3899)] - food, bread. The English word "meat," at the time when the present English transition of the Bible was made, was applied to farinaceous as... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ The king sat upon his seat, as at other times ... by the wall. The left-hand grainer at the at the upper end of a room was, and still is,... [ Continue Reading ]
_NEVERTHELESS SAUL SPAKE NOT ANY THING THAT DAY: FOR HE THOUGHT, SOMETHING HATH BEFALLEN HIM, HE IS NOT CLEAN; SURELY HE IS NOT CLEAN._ He is not clean. No notice was taken of David's absence, as he might be labouring under some ceremonial defilement.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE MORROW, WHICH WAS THE SECOND DAY OF THE MONTH, THAT DAVID'S PLACE WAS EMPTY: AND SAUL SAID UNTO JONATHAN HIS SON, WHEREFORE COMETH NOT THE SON OF JESSE TO MEAT, NEITHER YESTERDAY, NOR TO DAY?_ On the morrow, which was the second day of the month. The time of the moon's a... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JONATHAN ANSWERED SAUL, DAVID EARNESTLY ASKED LEAVE OF ME TO GO TO BETHLEHEM:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SAUL'S ANGER WAS KINDLED AGAINST JONATHAN, AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, THOU SON OF THE PERVERSE REBELLIOUS WOMAN, DO NOT I KNOW THAT THOU HAST CHOSEN THE SON OF JESSE TO THINE OWN CONFUSION, AND UNTO THE CONFUSION OF THY MOTHER'S NAKEDNESS?_ Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman. This is a stri... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR AS LONG AS THE SON OF JESSE LIVETH UPON THE GROUND, THOU SHALT NOT BE ESTABLISHED, NOR THY KINGDOM. WHEREFORE NOW SEND AND FETCH HIM UNTO ME, FOR HE SHALL SURELY DIE._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAUL CAST A JAVELIN AT HIM TO SMITE HIM: WHEREBY JONATHAN KNEW THAT IT WAS DETERMINED OF HIS FATHER TO SLAY DAVID._ And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him. The ordinary way in which commentators understand this clause is with reference to Jonathan; and accordingly the usual heading of the... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO JONATHAN AROSE FROM THE TABLE IN FIERCE ANGER, AND DID EAT NO MEAT THE SECOND DAY OF THE MONTH: FOR HE WAS GRIEVED FOR DAVID, BECAUSE HIS FATHER HAD DONE HIM SHAME._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE MORNING, THAT JONATHAN WENT OUT INTO THE FIELD AT THE TIME APPOINTED WITH DAVID, AND A LITTLE LAD WITH HIM._ Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed - or, 'at the place appointed.'... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID UNTO HIS LAD, RUN, FIND OUT NOW THE ARROWS WHICH I SHOOT. AND AS THE LAD RAN, HE SHOT AN ARROW BEYOND HIM._ He said unto his lad. The direction given aloud to the attendant was the signal preconcerted with David. It implied danger.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THE LAD WAS COME TO THE PLACE OF THE ARROW WHICH JONATHAN HAD SHOT, JONATHAN CRIED AFTER THE LAD, AND SAID, IS NOT THE ARROW BEYOND THEE?_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JONATHAN GAVE HIS ARTILLERY UNTO HIS LAD, AND SAID UNTO HIM, GO, CARRY THEM TO THE CITY._ Gave his artillery - i:e., his missile weapons. The French word 'artillerie' signifies 'archery,' and the term is still used in England, in the designation of the 'artillery company of London,' the associ... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AS SOON AS THE LAD WAS GONE, DAVID AROSE OUT OF A PLACE TOWARD THE SOUTH, AND FELL ON HIS FACE TO THE GROUND, AND BOWED HIMSELF THREE TIMES: AND THEY KISSED ONE ANOTHER, AND WEPT ONE WITH ANOTHER, UNTIL DAVID EXCEEDED._ David ... fell on his face ... and bowed himself three times - a token of... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JONATHAN SAID TO DAVID, GO IN PEACE, FORASMUCH AS WE HAVE SWORN BOTH OF US IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, SAYING, THE LORD BE BETWEEN ME AND THEE, AND BETWEEN MY SEED AND THY SEED FOR EVER. AND HE AROSE AND DEPARTED: AND JONATHAN WENT INTO THE CITY._ Jonathan said to David, Go in peace. The intervie... [ Continue Reading ]