Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 20:41

41 ¶ And assoon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the south , and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded .

In respect of the Stone where David by appointment hid himself.

As well he might, because he was driven away, not onely from his dear friend Ionathan, but also from his Wife, and all his Relations, and from the Commonwealth of Israel, and from the Service of God; as he complains below, Chap. 26. 19.