Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
A place toward the south - An unintelligible description; one expects a repetition of the description of David' s hiding-place in I Samuel 20:19. The Septuagint in both places has "argab," a word meaning a "heap of stones." If this be the true reading, David' s hiding-place was either a natural cavernous rock which was called "Argab," or some ruin of an ancient building, equally suited for a hiding-place.
Bowed himself three times - In token, doubtless, of his unshaken loyalty to Jonathan as the son of his king, as well as his friend; and in acknowledgment of Jonathan' s power to kill him if he saw fit. (Compare Genesis 33:3).
David exceeded - His affection for Jonathan, coupled with his sense of Saul' s injustice and his own injured innocence, fully accounts for his strong emotion.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Samuel 20:41:
1 Samuel 20:19
2 Corinthians 12:8
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