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1 Samuel 20

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^{1 Samuel 20:1 [1]} Or iniquity.

^{1 Samuel 20:2 [2]} Lit great or small.

^{1 Samuel 20:12 [3]} Lit David.

^{1 Samuel 20:13 [4]} Lit shalom.

^{1 Samuel 20:13 [5]} With this statement Jonathan acknowledges that David has been anointed king.

^{1 Samuel 20:14 [6]} To secure his throne a new king would usually kill anyone who was a potential rival for the throne. Jonathan is asking assurance that he will not be assassinated after David becomes king.

^{1 Samuel 20:16 [7]} This covenant was binding not only on David and Jonathan, but also on their descendants.

^{1 Samuel 20:16 [8]} This may have been the additional vow mentioned in v 17.

^{1 Samuel 20:16 [9]} Jonathan was aligning himself with David against all of David's enemies, including Saul.

^{1 Samuel 20:19 [10]} Lit on the day of the doing.

^{1 Samuel 20:21 [11]} Lit shalom.

^{1 Samuel 20:21 [12]} Lit nothing.

^{1 Samuel 20:26 [13]} Saul assumed that David had come into contact with a source of ritual pollution, such as a corpse, and was for that reason temporarily disqualified from participating in the New Moon Festival.

^{1 Samuel 20:30 [14]} The vulgar language of this Hebrew idiom demeaned Jonathan, not his mother, and Saul implied that she was ashamed of giving birth to him.

^{1 Samuel 20:31 [15]} Lit is a son of death.

^{1 Samuel 20:42 [16]} Lit in shalom.

^{1 Samuel 20:42 [17]} In Hebrew, this is v 1 of the next chapter making the versification different throughout ch 21.

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