Geneva Bible Notes: 1 Samuel 20

1 Samuel 20:1 ^a For Saul was stayed, & prophecied a day & night by Gods prouidence, that Dauid might haue time to escape.

1 Samuel 20:2 ^! Jonathan comforteth Dauid.

1 Samuel 20:2 ^/ Ebr. reueile it in mine eare.

1 Samuel 20:3 ^! They renue their league.

1 Samuel 20:3 ^b I am in great danger of death.

1 Samuel 20:4 ^/ Ebr. sayeth.

1 Samuel 20:5 ^c At what time there shulde be a solemne sacrifice, {Nomb. 28,11}: to the which they added peace offrings and feasts.

1 Samuel 20:6 ^d Read {Chap. 1, 21}.

1 Samuel 20:9 ^e That he were fully determined.

1 Samuel 20:10 ^f If thy father do fauour me.

1 Samuel 20:13 ^g The Lord punishe me moste grieuously.

1 Samuel 20:14 ^h I knowe that if thou werest now preferred to the kyngdome, thou woldest not destroy me, but shewe thy selfe friendly to my posteritie.

1 Samuel 20:18 ^/ Or, mencioned.

1 Samuel 20:19 ^/ Ebr. of the way, because he serued as a signe to shewe the way to them that passed by.

1 Samuel 20:21 ^/ Ebr., peace.

1 Samuel 20:22 ⁱ The Lord is the autour of thy departure.

1 Samuel 20:26 ^k Yet he might haue some busines to let him.

1 Samuel 20:27 ^l Thus he speaketh contempteously of Dauid.

1 Samuel 20:29 ^m That is a peace offring.

1 Samuel 20:29 ⁿ Meaning all his kinsfolke.

1 Samuel 20:30 ^o Thou art euer contrary vnto me as thy mother is.

1 Samuel 20:31 ^/ Ebr, sonne of death.

1 Samuel 20:32 ^p For it were to great tyranie to put one to death and not to shewe the cause why.

1 Samuel 20:33 ^! Saul wolde haue killed Jonathan.

1 Samuel 20:35 ^q For this was the third day, as it was agreed vpon, {vers. 5}.

1 Samuel 20:38 ^r By these wordes he admonished Dauid what he oght to do.

1 Samuel 20:38 ^! Jonathan aduertiseth Dauid by thre arrowes of his fathers fury.

1 Samuel 20:40 ^/ Ebr, instruments.

1 Samuel 20:41 ^s It semeth that he had shot on the Northside of the stone, lest the boy shulde haue espied Dauid.

1 Samuel 20:42 ^t Which othe he calleth in the eight verse the couenant of the Lord.