1 Samuel 19

These are not drunken as you suppose. Jonathan knowing David to be a worthy man, and all those things Saul said of him to be slanders, vindicated David (1 Samuel 19:4-5). David has not sinned against you, but his works toward you have been very good.

They must likewise be very few, and very humble and submissive. Talkativeness is an argument of disrespect, and by the answers of the lips, the heart is tried and sounded; therefore we find how mildly and reverently Jonathan speaks to his father Saul, although he were then plead…

These at first were under the tuition of Samuel. Thus we read of Samuel's being appointed over them, 1 Samuel 19:20: "And when they saw the company of prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them." The company of prophets that we read of 1 Samuel 10:5 were th…

Meekness hides the lancet, gilds the pill, and makes it passable; dips the nail in oil, and then it drives the better. Twice we find Jonathan reproving his father, for his rage against David; once he did it with meekness, and it sped well (1 Samuel 19:4-5): let not the king sin…

On this ground did Michal well in suffering her husband David to escape out of the hands of Saul her father. I justify not her manner of carrying the matter, with untruths, and false tales; but her refusing to yield to her father's mind and will is justifiable, and that in two r…

So Rahab spared the lives of the spies, by telling the men of her city that they were gone, when she had hidden them under the stalks of flax (Joshua 2:4-6). Thus Michal to save David from the fury of her father, feigned him sick (1 Samuel 19:14), and David advised Jonathan to a…

Exodus 21:22. 2 kings 24:25. without cause or merit or any means of procurement, 1 Samuel 19:5. 2 Samuel 24:24.