28:23 But he refused, saying, “I won’t eat!” Both his servants and the woman urged 2 him to eat, so he gave in. 3 He got up from the ground and sat down on the bed.
1 tn Heb “for he was upset concerning David for his father had humiliated him.” The referent of the pronoun “him” is not entirely clear, but the phrase “concerning David” suggests that it refers to David, rather than Jonathan.
2 tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew
3 tn Heb “he listened to their voice.”