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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 ...
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1 SAMUEL 20. DAVID AND JONATHAN (J).
1 Samuel 20 has no obvious connexion with any of the preceding or
following sections: And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, is an
editorial insertion to connect thi...
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_cast a javelin_ Or, as in 1 Samuel 18:11, LIFTED HIS SPEAR:
brandished it threateningly, without actually casting it....
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Saul's intention tested by Jonathan
24. _meat_ Lit. _bread_. "Meat" in the E. V. signifies _food_in
general, and is nowhere limited to the modem meaning _flesh_. This
usage survives in some provincia...
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This section is the _Haphtarah_for the New Moon when it falls on the
first day of the week....
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_Saul's Attack on Jonathan and David._ 1 Samuel 20:24-34
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...
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_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 comment...
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THE FRIENDSHIP OF DAVID AND JONATHAN
4. Thy soul] a pathetic periphrasis for 'thou.'...
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ISRAEL’S FIRST KING
1 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 20
JONATHAN HELPS DAVID
V1 Then David ran away from Naioth at Ramah. He went to Jonathan and
asked him, ‘What have I done? What is my crime? W...
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וַ יָּ֨טֶל שָׁא֧וּל אֶֽת ־הַ חֲנִ֛ית
עָלָ֖יו
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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...
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THE SIGN OF THE ARROW
1 Samuel 20:30
It had become clear that the arrows were against David. It was useless
to endeavor to fight against the force of irresistible circumstances.
We are to hold our gr...
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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...
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(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 an...
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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...
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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,...
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AND SAUL CAST A JAVELIN AT HIM TO SMITE HIM,.... So provoked to wrath
was he by what he said. It seems by this that Saul always had a
javelin or spear in his hand, which is to be accounted for by the...
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And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew
that it was determined of his father to slay David.
Ver. 33. _And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him._] Which, if it
had hit hi...
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_Saul cast a javelin to smite him_ Saul seemed a moment before to be
in great care, that Jonathan should be _established in his kingdom:_
and now he himself aims at his life! What fools, what worse th...
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1 Dauid consulteth with Ionathan for his safetie.
11 Ionathan and Dauid renew their couenant by oath.
18 Ionathans token to Dauid.
24 Saul missing Dauid, seeketh to kill Ionathan.
35 Ionathan loui...
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And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him, he brandished and
probably even hurled the small spear which he used as a scepter;
WHEREBY JONATHAN KNEW THAT IT WAS DETERMINED, FIRMLY SETTLED, OF HIS
FAT...
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Jonathan's Information to David...
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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...
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24-34 None were more constant than David in attending holy duties;
nor had he been absent, but self-preservation obliged him to withdraw.
In great peril present opportunities for Divine ordinances ma...
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TO SMITE HIM, i. e. to wound him, though not to smite him even to the
wall, as he designed to do to David, 1 SAMUEL 19:10....
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JONATHAN AND SAUL FALL OUT OVER DAVID AT THE NEW MOON FESTIVAL
(20:24B-34).
Every ‘day of the new moon', which indicated the commencement of
another ‘month', and thus regulated the seasons and the day...
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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...
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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,...
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_And Jonathan answered Saul, his father, and said unto him, Wherefore
should he be slain?_
DAVID’S FRIEND, JONATHAN
“There is little friendship in the world,” said Lord Bacon. “O
friendship,” wrote...
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_And I will shoot three arrows._
THE CLAIMS OF FRIENDSHIP
I. The arrows taught that a strong and noble friend was standing in
the breach.
1. Never be ashamed to own a friend. Do not count him your...
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_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...
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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...
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EXPOSITION
OPEN HATRED OF SAUL AGAINST DAVID (1 Samuel 20:24-9).
1 SAMUEL 20:24-9
THE KING SAT HIM DOWN TO EAT MEAT. Hebrew, "the king sat d
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Now David fled from Naioth in Ramah, he came to Jonathan, he said,
What have I done? what is my iniquity? what is my sin that your father
is seeking my life? And Jonathan said to him, God forbid; thou...
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To smite him — Saul seemed to be in great care, that Jonathan should
be established in his kingdom: and now he himself aims at his life!
What fools, what worse than savage beasts does anger make....