The New Moon Feast

A calendar meal-setting used as a royal and social marker.

The New Moon is presented as a known, expected feast day where one “should” sit and eat. In 1 Samuel 20 it becomes the stage for covenant loyalty and danger, showing how calendar rhythm shaped social life.

Scripture

1 Samuel 20:5

5 David said to Jonathan, "Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.