1 Samuel 20

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

^{2 !} Jonathan comforteth Dauid.

^{2 /} Ebr. reueile it in mine eare.

^{3 !} They renue their league.

^{3 b} I am in great danger of death.

^{4 /} Ebr. sayeth.

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

^{6 d} Read {Chap. 1, 21}.

^{9 e} That he were fully determined.

^{10 f} If thy father do fauour me.

^{13 g} The Lord punishe me moste grieuously.

^{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.

^{18 /} Or, mencioned.

^{19 /} Ebr. of the way, because he serued as a signe to shewe the way to them that passed by.

^{21 /} Ebr., peace.

^{22 i} The Lord is the autour of thy departure.

^{26 k} Yet he might haue some busines to let him.

^{27 l} Thus he speaketh contempteously of Dauid.

^{29 m} That is a peace offring.

^{29 n} Meaning all his kinsfolke.

^{30 o} Thou art euer contrary vnto me as thy mother is.

^{31 /} Ebr, sonne of death.

^{32 p} For it were to great tyranie to put one to death and not to shewe the cause why.

^{33 !} Saul wolde haue killed Jonathan.

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

^{38 r} By these wordes he admonished Dauid what he oght to do.

^{38 !} Jonathan aduertiseth Dauid by thre arrowes of his fathers fury.

^{40 /} Ebr, instruments.

^{41 s} It semeth that he had shot on the Northside of the stone, lest the boy shulde haue espied Dauid.

^{42 t} Which othe he calleth in the eight verse the couenant of the Lord.