1 Samuel 20:1
David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said to Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”
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1 Samuel 12:3Here I am. Witness against me before the LORD and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”
1 Samuel 19:18Now David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.
1 Samuel 20:32Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”
1 Samuel 24:9David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you’?
1 Samuel 24:12May the LORD judge between me and you, and may the LORD avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.
1 Samuel 26:18He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 20:1
David, having several times narrowly escaped Saul's fury, begins to consider at last whether it may not be necessary for him to retire into the country and to take up arms in his own defence. But he will not do so daring a thing without consulting his faithful friend Jonathan; how he did this, and what passed between them, we have an account in this chapter, where we have as surprising instances of supernatural love as we had in the chapter before of unnatural hatred. I. David complains to Jonathan of his present… Read the whole commentary →