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**iniquity.** Hebrew ` *avah.* App-44 . sin. Hebrew. *chata'.* App-44 .
**my life** = my soul. Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 . "Me" emphatic.

**behold** . Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 .

**the LORD** . Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .
**thy soul** = thou. Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 .
**step** = stride. Hebrew. *pesa `. O* cc. only here.

**should not fail to sit** . Septuagint reads "shall not sit". unto the third day at even. Septuagint reads "until the evening". Compare [1 Samuel 20:12](../../../kjv/1-samuel/20/12) .

**evil.** Hebrew. *ra'a.* App-44 .

**O LORD God of Israel** . Syriac reads "Jehovah, God of Israel, [be] witness that I will sound", &c.
**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 .

**as** = according as.

**the face of** . Figure of speech *Pleonasm.* *App-6* *.*

**made** = solemnised.

**And Jonathan caused David to swear again** . Septuagint reads "And again Jonathan sware unto David". soul. Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 .

**when the business was in hand** : i.e. the day when Jonathan arranged for David to overhear Saul's murderous intention ([1 Samuel 19:2](../../../kjv/1-samuel/19/2) , [1 Samuel 19:3](../../../kjv/1-samuel/19/3) ), and when Jonathan devoted himself to the business of David's safety.
**stone Ezel** . Septuagint reads "the side of this mound".

**meat.** Put by Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Species), App-6 , for all kinds of food.

**not any thing** : i.e. "nothing [concerning David's absence] that day ".

**Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman** = a son of rebellious perversity: i.e. a rebel like David. Compare note on [1 Samuel 18:19](../../../kjv/1-samuel/18/19) .

**shall surely die** = the son of death: i.e. doomed to die.

**artillery** = weapons. Word extended from Latin. *ars* = art. The oldest art was ploughing, but the chief weapon in the art of war has usurped to itself this word.

**out of a place toward the south** . Sept, reads "from beside the mound": i, e. Ezel, in [1 Samuel 20:19](../../../kjv/1-samuel/20/19) .

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