1 Samuel 20:32
And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore should he be put to death? what hath 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 avoided out of 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 say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be wroth, then know that evil is determined by him.
Proverbs 24:11Deliver them that are carried away unto death, and those that are ready to be slain see that thou hold back.
Ecclesiastes 7:9Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is desperately sick: 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 →