1 Samuel 20:18-19

Jonathan now arranges his plan for communicating the result to David. For when thou hast stayed three days , at which all the versions stumble, a slight alteration gives the right sense: "And on the third day." David on the third day was to go down quickly —Hebrew, "greatly, i.e. he was to go a long way down into the valley. The rendering quickly is taken from the Vulgate, but makes no sense. It did not matter whether David went fast or slow, as he was to hide there for some time, but it was important that David should be far away, so that no prying eye might chance to catch sight of him. When the business was in hand. Literally, "the day of the business," probably that narrated in 1 Samuel 19:2-7 . The Septuagint, Vulgate, and Chaldee all understand "a working day," in opposition to a feast day; but "where thou didst hide thyself on a week day" gives no intelligible meaning. By the stone Ezel. As the name Ezel is formed from a verb signifying to go , some understand by it a road stone, a stone to mark the way.