This post is still on the previous chart, link here: 1069 BC.  When these articles are ported over to torahtimes, I believe I am going to organize them under the most relevant chart.

David: PART II

Do you remember the passage where David misses the New Moon Feast, and hides? Just before the new moon feast he met with Jonathan, and went to hide, to discern the attitude of Saul.  It was bad. David wasn't at the feast, and Jonathan made an excuse for him.  Saul got angry and spoke his mind about David. He even tossed a spear at Jonathan. On the third day at daybreak David emerged from his hiding place, and Jonathan told him the results. Then David ascended to Nob, where the Tabernacle was being kept.

David was hungry, and so were his companions.  He asked for the old bread that was getting removed on the Sabbath to replace it with fresh bread, because that is when the priests rotated their divisions and when the bread was replaced. So it was the Sabbath.

It was a Sabbath on the 3rd day of the first month.  David's excuse had been he was going to Bethlehem to celebrate the yearly feast, the feast of days, which was the Passover, because this comes just after the spring equinox. In Hebrew it is the feast of days, a feast at the end of the 365 or 366 days of the old year.

The New Moon feast was a Thursday and a Friday. On the third day, daybreak on the Sabbath, Jonathan and David said their farewell.  Then David fled, arriving at Nob the same day [1]. This back calculates to exactly 1069 BC, and fits in with the beginning of David's life as a fugitive, about 7 years in all [2].

He who has an ear let him hear. The Shabbat, the Sabbath, is a day to be set apart, to be kept holy. 

Now David is a type of Messiah Yeshua. David hid himself for three days [3]. Then on the Sabbath at daybreak, he meets again with his close friend, as Miryam of Magdala met with Messiah Yeshua. He flees, as did the two men on the road to Emmaus, and arrives at Nob, were he takes the bread of the presence from the priest on the Sabbath, when it is being exchanged for fresh bread. He broke the bread with his fellow fugitives.

At least one or two men are with David, who have decided to cast their lot with him, but were instructed to meet him at another place, as Yeshua instructed his disciples to meet him in Galilee. David then takes the bread and breaks it with his companions as they flee to Gath. Now Gath represents the nations where Israel was exiled, and so Yeshua presents himself to the nations, as David did at Gath.

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Footnotes

[1] Nob, a city of Priests, was 2 to 5 miles from Gibeah of Saul.  Most likely it was between 2 and 3 miles. At a brisk walk, it would take only a couple of hours to reach. So if David departed sometime after daybreak, he would have arrived a bit before noon, when the bread of the presence was being exchanged for fresh bread. (In a former explanation I had a day elapsing from the farewell meeting till David's arrival at Nob.  However, the distance is too short to justify more than a few hours.)

[2] New Moon Calculations show that the moon could in theory be seen on Tuesday evening, April 11, 1069 BC.  However it is a "B" case, for which conditions have to be ideal.  Evidently the moon was not seen then, and was sighted on April 12, Wednesday evening. As a result of previous months being dislocated due to visibility difficulties on the first day of the month, April 12th had been assumed to be the 29th day of Adar II. Therefore, Thursday and Friday ended up being the two days for the New Moon feast. Nearby years have unworkable solutions, confirming that 1069 BC is correct given the time period of David's life as a fugitive.

[3] David went into hiding on the day before the new moon, as it is stated, "Tomorrow is the new moon." This was Wednesday April 12, 1069 BC. The two new moon feast days were Thu, April 13, and Friday April 14. David says he will meet again with Jonathan on the 3rd day of the month, which took place at daybreak, "ba-boqer." This places David in hiding the remainder of Wednesday, Wednesday Night, on Thursday, the new moon feast, Thursday night, on Friday, the second day of the new moon, and on Friday Night. The third day of the month commenced at dawn on the Sabbath.  Thus from leaving Jonathan till saying his farewell, he was in hiding three days and three nights.