In 1 Samuel 20:5, David informs Jonathan that the next day is the New Moon, a significant time when he is expected to dine with the king. However, David plans to hide in the field until the evening of the third day. As the narrative unfolds, we learn that David’s seat at the king’s table remains empty during the New Moon feast. On the second day of the New Moon, Jonathan, filled with anger and grief for David, fasts instead of partaking in the feast.
On the third day of the new month, as mentioned in 1 Samuel 20:35, Jonathan meets David in the field. This day is significant as it marks the beginning of each new month in the Hebrew reckoning of time. It is also the day when the outgoing showbread, which is holy, is eaten. This practice is affirmed in Leviticus 24:8-9, which states that every Sabbath, the showbread is set in order before Yahuah continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant. The replaced showbread is then eaten in the holy place.
This practice clearly establishes that the day on which the New Moon is spotted is counted as day one of each new month in the Hebrew reckoning of time. It is not a non-day. And this specific weekly Sabbath, was the first weekly Sabbath of the month, on which David and his men ate the outgoing showbread, did not fall on the 8th day of the month, nor the 7th. This first weekly Sabbath of the new Hebrew month fell on the 3rd day.
Furthermore, if the Jews in the New Testament were keeping the wrong weekly Sabbath (as Lunar Sabbatarians claim), why didn’t Jesus (Yahoshua (יהושוע)) call them on it? As a matter of fact, on one specific weekly Sabbath, when Yahoshua (Jesus) and his disciples were hungry and plucking heads of grain to eat, some Pharisees accused Him of doing what is not lawful (according to man-made regulations) on the Sabbath. And what did Jesus (Yahoshua (יהושוע)) do? He reminded them of what David did on a weekly Sabbath. David and his men who were hungry entered the house of God and ate the (outgoing) Loaves of the Presentation.
There are many places throughout the New Testament in which Jesus (Yahoshua (יהושוע)) performs miracles on the Sabbath Day—places where the Yahoshua (יהושוע) chastises Pharisees for breaking His Father’s commandments in order to keep their manmade doctrines.
Why are there no accounts in all the New Testament in which the “Lord of the Sabbath”, Yahoshua (יהושוע), corrects people for keeping the wrong seventh-day Sabbath? Why didn’t Yahoshua (יהושוע) accuse the Sadducees or Pharisees of keeping a Babylonian Sabbath?
The Hebrew weekly Sabbath was a day of gladness, not of penance. And since the Babylonians had no week of seven days, the assumption that the Jews borrowed their Sabbath day from the Babylonians lacks any foundation.
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