And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is not the arrow beyond thee?
When the young man reached the spot where Jonathan had shot the arrow, Jonathan called out to him, 'Isn't the arrow farther ahead of you?'
Jonathan is using a coded message with his servant to secretly warn his friend David that he's in danger and needs to flee.
📚 Historical Context
In the book of 1 Samuel, David is fleeing from King Saul, who is jealous of David's popularity and sees him as a threat to his throne. Jonathan, Saul's son and David's loyal friend, devises a secret plan using arrows as signals to warn David about Saul's intentions without arousing suspicion. In this verse, Jonathan calls out to a servant boy after shooting an arrow, which serves as a coded message to indicate that David is in danger.
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