Section 14
he determines evil. Therefore you shall deal kindly with your servant for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahwah with you." Dawad had entered into a covenant with Yahunathan and Dawad is saying, I must defend you, you must defend me, we must deal in covenant with one another, and if I am in danger, let me know....I am going to hide out here in the field until the third evening (after the conclusion of khadash - the renewing of the yarakh) and see what happens. Verse 24 picks up with Dawad hiding in the field,
"......and when existed the khadash.....", (there's an event here called "khadash") "....the king sat down to eat the food." (The king is sitting down to eat this special meal; a time of feasting that's during this time of khadash (renewing of the yarakh). Continuing with verse 25, "Now the king sat on his seat as at other times, on a seat by the wall. Then Yahunathan arose and Daniel sat by Shawal's side, but Dawad's place was empty. Nevertheless, Shawal did not say anything that day for he thought, 'Something has happened to him; he is unclean, surely unclean.'"
We'll pick up at verse 27,
"And it existed on the morrow, the second of the khadash (time of renewal of the yarakh - also day 29 of the khadash cycle), that Dawad's place was empty...."
The KJV translators translate the word "khadash" as "month", but it is the same word that is translated in verse 24 as "new moon." We know that this is not the proper contextual usage of the Hebrew word "khadash", as the 2nd day of the "month" bears no scriptural significance as an appointed time of Yahwah....it is not a muayd. When the Hebrew text refers to a certain day of the 29 or 30 day yarakh cycle ("khadash or month"), it would be stated as, "in day fifteen of/from khadash, the second....." (Wiqara/Lev. 23:39). Thus, it is identifying what number of day it is of/from/since the completion of the khadash renewal time as evidenced by the first sliver. This culmination of the renewal time called "khadash" is witnessed by the evidence of the first light of the yarakh and becomes the point at which we are able to begin counting our days of the renewed 29 or 30 day khadash cycle. However in this account, the text is referring to the second morrow of the time of renewal (the "dark" period)......the second day of the renewal of the light of the yarakh. Continuing with verse 28,
"So Yahunathan answered Shawal, 'Dawad earnestly asked of me to Bayath-Lakham (Bethlehem), and he said, "Please let me go for my family is having a sacrifice in the city and my brothers commanded me, and now if I've found favor in your eyes, please let me get away and see my brothers." Therefore, he has not come to the king's table.' Then Shawal's anger aroused against Yahunathan and said to him, 'you son of a perverse, rebellious one. Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Yishi to your own shame and to the shame of your mother's nakedness. For as long as the son of Yishi lives on the earth, you shall not be established, nor your kingdom. Now therefore send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die.' So Yahunathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of khadash (time of renewal), for he was grieved for Dawad, because his father had treated him shamefully. And so it was, in the morning...
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