1 Samuel 20:37

Contextual Overview

³⁵In the morning Jonathan went out to the countryside for the appointed meeting with David. A young servant was with him. ³⁵ It happened in the morning, that Yonatan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him. ³⁵ And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him. ³⁵ And then in the morning Jonathan went out to the field for the appointment with David, and a young boy was with him. ³⁵ In the morning Jonathan went out into the field to the appointment with David, and with him a little boy. ³⁵ The next morning Jonathan went out to the field to meet David as they had agreed. He had a young boy with him. ³⁵ The next morning Jonathan, along with a young servant, went out to the field to meet David. ³⁵In the morning Jonathan went out to the field for the meeting with David, and a young boy was with him. ³⁵ Now it came about in the morning that Jonathan went out to the field at the time agreed upon with David, and a little boy was with him. ³⁵ On the next morning therefore Ionathan than went out into the fielde, at the time appoynted with Dauid, and a litle boy with him.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot,.... To the mark which he told him he should shoot at, and whereabout he might expect to find the arrow:

Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, [is] not the arrow beyond thee? he cried with a loud voice and said this, not so much that the lad might hear him, but that David, who lay hid near the place, might hear him; so that if they had no opportunity of seeing and conversing with each other through any person going by at that time, David might know by this sign that evil was determined against him, and must flee for his life; the Syriac and Vulgate Latin versions read, "behold, the arrow is beyond thee"; so Noldius k.

k Concord. Ebr. Part. p. 265. No. 1141.