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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 remainders of it, after the manner. See Num_10:10 28:11 Psa_81:3.
I should not fail to sit with the king at meat; then he useth to expect my company above other times.
Unto the third day, i.e. unto the next day but one after the new moon; as appears by comparing 1Sa_20:19,27,35. His meaning is not that he should hide himself in any certain place all the three days, but that he should secure himself, either at Bethlehem with his friends, or in any other place, till the third day.