1 Kings 20:27
And when the second day after the new moon was come, David's place appeared empty again. And Saul said to Jonathan his son: Why cometh not the son of Isai to meat neither yesterday nor today?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cumque illuxisset dies secunda post calendas, rursus apparuit vacuus locus David. Dixitque Saul ad Jonathan filium suum : Cur non venit filius Isai nec heri nec hodie ad vescendum ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐγενήθη τῇ ἐπαύριον τοῦ μηνὸς τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ δευτέρᾳ καὶ ἐπεσκέπη ὁ τόπος τοῦ Δαυείδ, καὶ εἶπεν Σαοὺλ πρὸς Ἰωναθὰν τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ Τί ὅτι οὐ παραγέγονεν ὁ υἱὸς Ἰεσσαὶ καὶ ἐχθὲς καὶ σήμερον ἐπὶ τὴν τράπεζαν;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיְהִ֗י מִֽמָּחֳרַ֤ת הַחֹ֨דֶשׁ֙ הַשֵּׁנִ֔י וַיִּפָּקֵ֖ד מְק֣וֹם דָּוִ֑ד וַיֹּ֤אמֶר שָׁאוּל֙ אֶל יְהוֹנָתָ֣ן בְּנ֔וֹ מַדּ֜וּעַ לֹא בָ֧א בֶן יִשַׁ֛י גַּם תְּמ֥וֹל גַּם הַיּ֖וֹם אֶל הַלָּֽחֶם
Haydock's commentary
To-day, which was the sabbath. (Calmet)
On the new moons people did not travel far. (Menochius)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Ambrose On the Duties of the Clergy, Chapter XXI. Esther in danger of her life followed the grace of virtue; nay, even a heathen king did so, when death was threatened to a man most friendly to him. For friendship must ever be combined with virtue, as the examples of Jonathan and Ahimelech show
124. For that commendable friendship which maintains virtue is to be preferred most certainly to wealth, or honours, or power. It is not wont to be preferred to virtue indeed, but to follow after it. So it was with Jonathan, who for his affection’s sake avoided not his father’s displeasure nor the danger to his own safety. So, too, it was with Ahimelech, who, to preserve the duties of hospitality, thought he must endure death rather than betray his friend when fleeing.