1 Samuel 19:4 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

1 Samuel 19:4

2 So Jonathan told David, saying, “My father Saul seeks to kill you. Therefore please be on your guard until morning, and stay in a secret place and hide.

3 And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak with my father about you. Then what I observe, I will tell ^ayou.”

4 Thus Jonathan ^aspoke well of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Let not the king ^bsin against his servant, against David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you.

5 For he took his ^alife in his hands and ^bkilled the Philistine, and ^cthe Lord brought about a great deliverance for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. ^dWhy then will you ^esin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”

6 So Saul heeded the voice of Jonathan, and Saul swore, “As the Lord lives, he shall not be killed.”

7 Then Jonathan called David, and Jonathan told him all these things. So Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence ^aas in times past.

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Jonathan spake good of David—He told his father he was committing a great sin to plot against the life of a man who had rendered the most invaluable services to his country and whose loyalty had been uniformly steady and devoted. The strong remonstrances of Jonathan produced an effect on the impulsive mind of his father. As he was still susceptible of good and honest impressions, he bound himself by an oath to relinquish his hostile purpose; and thus, through the intervention of the noble-minded prince, a temporary reconciliation was effected, in consequence of which David was again employed in the public service.

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