1 Samuel 20:32
And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, Why should he be put to death? What has he done?
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1 Samuel 18:11And Saul cast the spear, for he said, I will smite David even to the wall. And David turned away from his presence twice.
1 Samuel 19:10And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the spear into the wall. And David fled, and escaped that night.
1 Samuel 20:7If he says thus, It is well. Thy servant shall have peace. But if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
Proverbs 24:11Deliver those who are carried away to death, and hold thou back those who are ready to be slain.
Ecclesiastes 7:9Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 20:25-35
Jonathan Excuses David to Saul. ( b. c. 1058.) 24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat. 25 And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty. 26 Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean. 27 And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of… Read the whole commentary →