1 Samuel 20:30
And Saul was exceedingly angry with Jonathan, and said to him, Thou son of traitorous damsels! for do I not know that thou art an accomplice with the son of Jesse to thy shame, and to the shame of thy mother’s nakedness?
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Proverbs 14:29A man slow to wrath abounds in wisdom: 1 But a man of impatient spirit is very foolish. 1
Proverbs 19:12The threatening of a king is like the roaring of a lion; 1 But as dew on the grass, so is his favor. 1
Proverbs 21:24A bold and self-willed and insolent man is called a pest: 1 And he that remembers injuries is a transgressor. 1
Proverbs 27:3A stone is heavy, and sand cumbersome; 1 But a fool’s wrath is heavier than both. 1
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 →