So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no meat the second day of the month: for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.
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Gill's Exposition
So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger,.... Resenting his father's attempt to smite him, and his resolution to slay David:
and did eat no meat the second day of the month; not then at that…
Adam Clarke
Jonathan arose - in fierce anger - We should probably understand this rather of Jonathan's grief than of his anger, the latter clause explaining the former: for he was grieved for David. He was…
Jonathan is here effectually convinced of that which he was so loth to believe, that his father had an implacable enmity to David, and would certainly be the death of him if it were in his power; and…
Cambridge Bible
had done him shame Saul had insulted and wronged David by publicly charging him with treasonable intentions (1Sa 20:20). "The generosity of Jonathan's character is very apparent. He did not resent the…