Genesis 4:5-6

But.

Nu 16:15; Heb 11:4

wroth.

31:2,5; Job 5:2; Ps 20:3; Isa 3:10,11; Mt 20:15; Lu 15:28-30

Ac 13:45

1Ch 13:11-13; Job 5:2; Isa 1:18; Jer 2:5,31; Joh 4:1-4,8-11

Mic 6:3-5; Mt 20:15; Lu 15:31,32

Genesis 37:4

hated him.

5,11,18-24; 4:5; 27:41; 49:23; 1Sa 16:12,13; 17:28; Ps 38:19; 69:4

Joh 7:3-5; 15:18,19; Tit 3:3; 1Jo 2:11; 3:10,12; 4:20

and could not speak peaceably unto him.Or, rather, "and they could not speak peace to him," i.e., they would not accost him in a friendly manner: they would not even wish him well, in the eastern mode of salutation of, Peace be to thee! It is not an unusual thing for an Arab or Turk to hesitate to return the {salâm}, if given by a Christian, or by one of whom he has not a favourable opinion; and this may always be considered as an act of hostility.

Genesis 37:8

reign over us.

4; Ex 2:14; 1Sa 10:27; 17:28; Ps 2:3-6; 118:22; Lu 19:14; 20:17

Ac 4:27,28; 7:35; Heb 10:29

1 Samuel 17:27-28

So shall it.

25

Eliab's anger.

16:13; Ge 37:4,8,11; Pr 18:19; 27:4; Ec 4:4; Mt 10:36; 27:18

Mr 3:21

with.

20

I know.

16:7; Ps 35:11; Jude 1:10

1 Samuel 18:8-9

the saying.

Es 3:5; Pr 13:10; 27:4; Ec 4:4; Jas 4:5

displeased him. Heb. was evil in his eyes.

Nu 11:1; 22:34; *margins

and what.

13:14; 15:28; 16:13; 20:31; 1Ki 2:22

eyed David.

Ge 4:5,6; 31:2; Mt 20:15; Mr 7:22; Eph 4:27; Jas 5:9

1 Samuel 20:30-33

Saul's.

Job 5:2; Pr 14:29; 19:12,19; 21:24; 25:28; 27:3; Jas 1:19,20

Thou, etc. or, Thou perverse rebel. Heb. Son of perverserebellion.

Pr 15:2; 21:24; Mt 5:22; Eph 4:31; 6:4

and unto the.This reflection on the mother of Jonathan, by the passionate monarch, reflects more dishonour on himself than on his brave and noble minded son. Mungo Park gives an instance of the prevalence of the same principles in Africa; for he says, "Maternal affection is every where conspicuous among the Africans, and creates a correspondent return of tenderness in the child. 'Strike me,' said my attendant, 'but do not curse my mother.' I found the same sentiment to prevail universally in all parts of Africa." King Saul, unable to villify Jonathan to his own satisfaction by personal reproaches, outstepped the ordinary abuse of his day, and proceeded to that which was designed to produce unusual vexation, and vented the bitterness of his mind by maligning the character of his own wife and Jonathan's mother.

send.

8; 19:6,11-15

shall surely die. Heb. is the son of death.

26:16; 2Sa 19:28; Ps 79:11; *marg:

Wherefore.

19:5; Pr 24:11,12; 31:8,9; Joh 7:51

what hath.

Mt 27:23; Lu 23:22

cast.

18:11; 19:10,11; Pr 22:24; Ec 9:3; Jer 17:9

whereby.

7; Ec 7:9

33

1 Samuel 22:12-23

thou son.

7,13

Here I am. Heb. Behold me.

2Sa 9:6; Isa 65:1

Why have.

8; Ps 119:69; Am 7:10; Lu 23:2-5

And who.

19:4,5; 20:32; 24:11; 26:23; 2Sa 22:23-25; Pr 24:11,12; 31:8,9

the king's.

13; 17:25; 18:27

goeth.

18:13; 21:2

Did I then.He seems to intimate, that his enquiring now for David was no new thing, having often done so before, without ever being informed it was wrong in itself or displeasing to the king.

the servant.

Ge 20:5,6; 2Sa 15:11; 2Co 1:12; 1Pe 3:16,17

less or more. Heb. little or great.

25:36

Thou shalt.

14:44; 20:31; 1Ki 18:4; 19:2; Pr 28:15; Da 2:5,12; 3:19,20; Ac 12:19

thou, and.

De 24:16; Es 3:6; Mt 2:16

footmen. or, guard. Heb. runners.

8:11; 2Sa 15:1; 1Ki 1:5

slay the priests.

13; 20:33; 25:17; 1Ki 18:4

would not.

14:45; Ex 1:17; 2Ki 1:13,14; Ac 4:19

Doeg.

9

he fell.

2Ch 24:21; Ho 5:11; 7:3; Mic 6:16; Zep 3:3; Ac 26:10,11

fourscore.The LXX. read, [tria kosious kai pente andras,] "three hundred and five men;" and Josephus, "three hundred and eighty-five men." Probably the eighty-five were priests and the three hundred the families of the priests; three hundred and eighty-five being the whole population of Nob.

2:30-33,36; 3:12-14

a linen ephod.

2:28; Ex 28:40

Nob.

9,11; 21:1; Ne 11:32; Isa 10:32

men.

15:3,9; Jos 6:17,21; Ho 10:14; Jas 2:13

with the edge.This is one of the worst acts of Saul's life: his malice was implacable, and his wrath cruel; and there is no motive of justice or policy by which such a barbarous massacre can be justified.

one.

23:6; 30:7; 2Sa 20:25; 1Ki 2:26,27

escaped.

2:33; 4:12; Job 1:15-17,19

21

I have occasioned.

21:1-9; Ps 44:22

he that seeketh.

1Ki 2:26; Mt 24:9; Joh 15:20; 16:2,3; Heb 12:1-3

but with me.

Joh 10:28-30; 17:12; 18:9
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