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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 20:5

Verse 1 Samuel 20:5. To-morrow is the new moon] The months of the Hebrews were lunar months, and they reckoned from new moon to new moon. And as their other feasts, particularly the passover, were reckoned according to this, they were very scrupulous in observing the first appearance of each new moon. On these new moons they offered sacrifices, and had a feast; as we learn from Numbers 10:10; Numbers 28:11. And we may suppose that the families, on such occasions, sacrificed and feasted together. To this David seems to refer; but the gathering together all the families of a whole tribe seems to have taken place only once in the year. There is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family, 1 Samuel 20:6.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The new moon, or beginning of each month, was celebrated with especial sacrifices and blowing of trumpets (marginal references.) The feast was kept with great solemnity as “a day of gladness,” and we...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    5. JONATHAN PROTECTS DAVID AND THEIR SEPARATION CHAPTER 20 _ 1. David with Jonathan (1 Samuel 20:1)_ 2. The strengthened bonds and the token (1 Samuel 20:11) 3. Saul's attempt to kill Jonathan ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SHOULD NOT FAIL TO SIT. Septuagint reads "shall not sit". unto the third day at even. Septuagint reads "until the evening". Compare 1 Samuel 20:12....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the new moon_ The New Moon or first day of the lunar month was celebrated with special sacrifices and blowing of trumpets. See Numbers 28:11-15; Numbers 10:10; Psalms 81:3. It was observed as a day o...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    TO-MORROW IS THE NEW MOON— Every _new moon_ they offered sacrifices, which were accompanied with a solemn feast. Numbers 10:10; Numbers 28:11. David being one of the king's family, by marrying his dau...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    David's Farewell to Jonathan, 1 Samuel 20:1-42. _David's Appeal to Jonathan._ 1 Samuel 20:1-10 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what _is_ min...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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._ T...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FRIENDSHIP OF DAVID AND JONATHAN 4. Thy soul] a pathetic periphrasis for 'thou.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE NEW MOON] Many nations of antiquity appear to have observed the day of the new moon as a religious festival. For its observance in Israel cp. 2 Kings 4:23; Isaiah 1:13; Amos 8:5 (where it is coupl...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE NEW MOON. — On the religious ceremonies connected with the day of the new moon at the beginning of each month, see the Mosaic enactments in Numbers 10:10; Numbers 28:11. At the court of Saul the f...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר דָּוִ֜ד אֶל ־יְהֹונָתָ֗ן הִֽנֵּה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXVII. _ DAVID AND JONATHAN._ 1 Samuel 20:1. WE have no means of determining how long time elapsed between the events recorded in the preceding chapter and those recorded in this. It is not...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    David returned to Jonathan, and there follows an interesting and beautiful account of a time in which these two friends took counsel together about David's peril. Every incident of the story is full...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow [is] the (c) 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 ev...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    To-morrow is the new moon. The neomenia, or first day of the moon, kept according to the law, as a festival; and therefore Saul feasted on that day; and expected the attendance of his family. (Challon...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Now that we have heard the prophet's judgment of king Saul, there follows next the choice of Jehovah. The chapter gives us in a very striking manner the manifest sentence of death on all the thoughts...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    David is now driven away from the presence of Saul, and becomes a wanderer in the earth. It is no longer entire submission to Saul, whilst himself the vessel of the energy of God. Driven away by Saul,...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND DAVID SAID UNTO JONATHAN,.... Moved that the following method might be taken as a trial of the disposition of Saul's mind towards David: BEHOLD, TOMORROW [IS] THE NEW MOON; the first day of the m...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _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....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • KJV Original Language Details

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    CONFERENCE BETWEEN DAVID AND JONATHAN...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, a minor, but joyful festival of the Jewish church-year, connected with a cheerful meal, Numbers 10:10; Numbers 28:11, AND I SHOULD NOT F...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    David however was fearful of the very presence of Saul at Naioth. He left there and returned back to find Jonathan, apparently hoping to find some possibility of help in Jonathan's further interceding...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-10 The trials David met with, prepared him for future advancement. Thus the Lord deals with those whom he prepares unto glory. He does not put them into immediate possession of the kingdom, but lea...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE NEW MOON was a solemn and festival time, as among the Romans and other heathens, so also with the Hebrews, who solemnized it with offering peace-offerings to God, and feasting together upon the re...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Samuel 20:5 David H1732 said H559 (H8799) Jonathan H3083 tomorrow H4279 Moon H2320 fail H3427 (H8800) sit

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    DAVID SEEKS OUT JONATHAN (1 SAMUEL 20:1). While Saul was rendered incapable of doing anything by the working of God's Spirit on him, David was able to flee from Naioth, and his first action was to tak...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jonathan protects David. Their parting. CHARACTERS: God, David, Jonathan, Saul. CONCLUSION: Though the believer be despised of many, compelled to leave all comforts and part with best frie...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Samuel 20:5. _The new moon,_ a day of feasting and trumpets, accompanied with the exercises of devotion. Numbers 10:16. 1 Samuel 20:6. _Run to Bethlehem._ It was not very far from Saul's residence,...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And David fled from Naioth, in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan._ DAVID AND JONATHAN 1. It will be suitable for us to dwell on the remarkable friendship between David and Jonathan--a beauti...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 20:5 The NEW MOON was the day of the first appearance of the crescent moon in the western sky at sunset, marking the beginning of the month in the lunar calendar. It was one...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 20:1. “AND DAVID FLED,” while Saul was still under the power of the prophetic influence. “Nothing could be a better evidence of his innocence than his thus putt...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 19:2; 1 Samuel 20:19; 1 Samuel 20:6; 2 Kings 4:23; Acts 17:14

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    To the third day — That is, unto the next day, but one after the new moon. His meaning is not, that he would hide himself in any certain place all the three days, but that he would secure himself eith...

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