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.

To their Priests and Levits, Cyprian does rightly liken our Pastors and Deacons, for however sundry things were done by the Priests and Levites, which were typical and Jewish onely; yet may we well parallell our Pastors with their Priests, in respect of a perpetuall Ecclesiastic…

The LXX. more often retains the word itself, as at Judges 17:5, 18:14, 17; 1 Samuel 15:23. Sometimes they render it as idols, as at Genesis 31:19, 34, 35; and as vain images, as at 1 Samuel 19:13. Also as carved images, Ezekiel 21:21; and as those that speak, Zechariah 10:2, for…

"Images made at a certain position of the stars, with figures," says Grotius. That the small images were made in human form is indicated by the history of Michal the daughter of Saul, who, in order to deceive the messengers sent by her father to kill David, placed teraphim in hi…

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.

One day's delay may cost a man the life of his soul. When Michal told David, saying, If you save not your life tonight, tomorrow you shall be slain, he went and fled and escaped (1 Samuel 19:11, 12). Thus O sinner, if you do not turn from your iniquities this day, it may be tomo…

Tell us then, whether it is lawful to give tribute to him or not. Here then was Jonathan's sincerity, when he condemned his own father, and that a king, in his proceedings against David, and defended David's innocency (1 Samuel 19:4-5). Here was old Jacob's sincerity on his deat…

For to this end do we put it on, and wear it, for the covering and hiding of that deformity of our naked bodies, which immediately followed upon the transgression of our first parents: and in this respect also, were garments (after the fall) appointed by God, for the use of man.…