Discovery Box1 Samuel 20:25 
Context20:25 The king sat down in his usual place by the wall, with Jonathan opposite him 1 and Abner at his side. 2 But David’s place was vacant.
1 Samuel 26:13
Context26:13 Then David crossed to the other side and stood on the top of the hill some distance away; there was a considerable distance between them.
1 tc Heb “and Jonathan arose.” Instead of MT’s וַיָּקָם (vayyaqam, “and he arose”; from the hollow verbal root קוּם, qum), the translation assumes a reading וַיִּקַדֵּם (vayyiqaddem, “and he was in front of”; from the verbal root קדם, qdm). See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 338.
2 tn Heb “and Abner sat at the side of Saul.”
