Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Samuel 20:27 - 20:27

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Samuel 20:27 - 20:27


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on the morrow, which was the second day of the month - The time of the moon’s appearance being uncertain - whether at midday, in the evening, or at midnight, the festival was extended over two days. Custom, not the law, had introduced this.

Saul said unto Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse - The question was asked, as it were, casually, and with as great an air of indifference as he could assume. And Jonathan having replied that David had asked and obtained his permission to attend a family anniversary at Beth-lehem [Act 20:28, Act 20:29], the pent-up passions of the king burst out in a most violent storm of rage and invective against his son.