Then Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did not eat food on the second day of the new moon, for he was grieved over David because his father had dishonored him.I'm just getting back into this, so this might be kind of shallow, but it's what I noticed.
First, it appears Jonathan arose from the table only after Saul had thrown the spear at him. I don't think this was one of those movie scenes, where father and son are at opposite ends of a huge long table. They may have only been a few feet apart. Jonathan didn't have to significantly dodge, even. For Saul to have missed at such short range says a lot about how angry he was. He must have been literally trembling.
I'm not sure who is being referred to on the final "him." Is this David, or Jonathan? If it's Jonathan, I can understand the dishonor he was done, since his own father had just tried to kill him. If it was David, how was he dishonored? Just because he was now a marked man? Or was there some different, more specific way that Saul had dishonored him?
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