1 Samuel 20

Question: How many ways may a parent provoke his children to wrath? Response 1. By giving them opprobrious terms (1 Samuel 20:30). You son of the perverse rebellious woman, said Saul to his son Jonathan.

These are all called the covenant of God, he is a party in the covenant ever. 3. Another, is an oath or a covenant of God to pass between friend, and friend; such was the covenant between Jonathan and David (1 Samuel 20:16). Now there is a certain covenant between God and his pe…

It is worth noting what God says of Abraham (Isaiah 51:2), I called him alone and blessed him. Mark it, when God had enticed Abraham from all his friends, and got him alone, then he blesses him, and you know what the blessing of Abraham was, even a covenant-blessing; such God di…

David we know fled from Saul in fear of his life; envious, bloody Saul had threatened to kill him. In his flight, David meets with his beloved Jonathan, and says to him (1 Samuel 20:8), Jonathan, if there be any iniquity in me, slay me yourself, for why should you bring me to yo…

While she says, I will give you my loves, it is not to be understood, as if then she would begin to love him (for, the thing that made her put up this suit was her love to him) but that then she would with more freedom do it, and with ease and delight get it done, which now woul…

Men in passion are apt to reveal secrets, to make rash vows and resolutions which afterwards prove a snare, and sometimes to slander and belie their brethren, and bring railing accusations, and so to do the devil's work; and to speak that in their haste concerning others (as Dav…

And your gravity and awful composedness therein will contribute very much to the preserving of your authority, and will command respect abundantly more than your noise and chiding. Masters of families (and masters of schools too) have need, in this matter, to behave themselves w…

Now communion is the mutual communication of such good things, as wherein the persons holding that communion are delighted, bottomed upon some union between them. So it was with Jonathan and David, their souls cleaved to one another (1 Samuel 20:17) in love. There was the union…

Secondly, that she first labor with all meekness and by all good means that she can to dissuade her husband from urging and pressing that upon her, which with a good conscience she cannot do. A like proof may be brought for this as was for the former: for we know that a wife is…

§. 39. Of indiscreet reproving a wife. Contrary is the indiscretion of husbands who regard neither place, nor persons, nor time, nor temper of themselves or their wives, nor any other circumstance in reproving, but like Saul (who at a table where a great feast was, in presence o…

2. Because she knew her father sought to slay him: if then she had delivered him into the hands of her father, she had made herself accessory to murder. In this latter respect [reconstructed: Jonathan] also did well in refusing to fetch David at his father's command (1 Samuel 20…

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…

So that should the Lord save you and your corruption, carry you and your proud unbelieving heart to heaven, he must nullify the Gospel (Hebrews 5:9 — he is the author of salvation to them that [illegible] him) and forswear himself (Hebrews 3:18 — he has sworn unbelievers shall n…