If he says, ‘Good,’ then your servant is safe, but if he is enraged, you will know he has evil intentions.
Here, I. David makes a representation to Jonathan of his present troubles. While Saul lay bound by his trance at Naioth David escaped to the court, and got to speak with Jonathan. And it was happy for him that he had such a friend at court, when he had such an enemy on the throne.
Commenting on 1 Samuel 20:1-8
If he say thus, it is well,.... It is very well, it is very good and right in him to do so: thy servant shall have peace; it will be a token that the wrath of the king was removed, and that his mind was well disposed towards David, and things had taken an happy turn, and would issue in his peace and prosperity: but...
1Sa 20:7 “If thy father says, It is well, there is peace to thy servant (i.e., he cherishes no murderous thoughts against me); but if he be very wroth, know that evil is determined by him.” כּלה, to be completed; hence to be firmly and unalterably determined (cf. 1Sa 25:17; Est 7:7). Seb.