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David and Jonathan. Second flight of David from Gibeah Benjamin.
1 Samuel 20:5. And David said to Jonathan: Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I must sit with the king at table; but let me go, and I will hide in the field until the evening of the third day.
New Moon is the festival of the new moon (Num. 10:10,28:11–15).
1 Samuel 20:6. If your father asks about me, you say: “David asked me to go to his city of Bethlehem; because there is an annual sacrifice of all his kindred.”
“There is an annual sacrifice of all his kindred”: see note. to 1 Samuel 7:9.
1 Samuel 20:8. Do you show mercy to your servant, for you have accepted your servant into the covenant of the Lord with you, and if there is any guilt on me, then kill me; Why do you take me to your father?
“For you have taken your servant into the covenant of the Lord with you”: see 1 Samuel 18:1–4.
1 Samuel 20:26. And Saul did not say anything that day, for he thought that it was an accident that David was unclean and had not purified himself.
"Unclean", i.e. is in a state of some kind of purification of itself according to the law (see Lev. 11: 1, 12: 1, 13: 1, 17: 1; Num. 5: 1, 12: 1, 19: 1, 31: 1, etc.).
1 Samuel 20:40. And Jonathan gave his weapon to the young man who was with him, and said to him: Go, take it to the city.
“To the City” by Giva Veniaminova.
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