_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN HE HAD MADE AN END OF SPEAKING UNTO SAUL, THAT THE SOUL OF JONATHAN WAS KNIT WITH THE SOUL OF DAVID, AND JONATHAN LOVED HIM AS HIS OWN SOUL._ The soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David. They were nearly of an age. The prince had taken little interest in David as... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAUL TOOK HIM THAT DAY, AND WOULD LET HIM GO NO MORE HOME TO HIS FATHER'S HOUSE._ Saul would let him go no more home. He was established as a permanent resident at court.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN JONATHAN AND DAVID MADE A COVENANT, BECAUSE HE LOVED HIM AS HIS OWN SOUL._ Then Jonathan and David made a covenant. Such covenants of brotherhood are frequent in the East. They are ratified by certain ceremonies, and in presence of witnesses, that the persons covenanting will be sworn brother... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JONATHAN STRIPPED HIMSELF OF THE ROBE THAT WAS UPON HIM, AND GAVE IT TO DAVID, AND HIS GARMENTS, EVEN TO HIS SWORD, AND TO HIS BOW, AND TO HIS GIRDLE._ JONATHAN STRIPPED HIMSELF OF THE ROBE ... AND GAVE IT TO DAVID. To receive any part of the dress which had been worn by a sovereign, or Iris ol... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID WENT OUT WHITHERSOEVER SAUL SENT HIM, AND BEHAVED HIMSELF WISELY: AND SAUL SET HIM OVER THE MEN OF WAR, AND HE WAS ACCEPTED IN THE SIGHT OF ALL THE PEOPLE, AND ALSO IN THE SIGHT OF SAUL'S SERVANTS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS AS THEY CAME, WHEN DAVID WAS RETURNED FROM THE SLAUGHTER OF THE PHILISTINE, THAT THE WOMEN CAME OUT OF ALL CITIES OF ISRAEL, SINGING AND DANCING, TO MEET KING SAUL, WITH TABRETS, WITH JOY, AND WITH INSTRUMENTS OF MUSICK._ The women came out of all cities of Israel - in the home... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE WOMEN ANSWERED ONE ANOTHER AS THEY PLAYED, AND SAID, SAUL HATH SLAIN HIS THOUSANDS, AND DAVID HIS TEN THOUSANDS._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAUL EYED DAVID FROM THAT DAY AND FORWARD._ Saul eyed David, х_ `OWYEEN_ (H5770), was eyeing (the participle denoting continuous action upon another] - i.e., invidiously, with secret and malignant hatred. [The Vatican copy of the Septuagint omits. The Alexandrian copy (Tischendorf's notes) ha... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE MORROW, THAT THE EVIL SPIRIT FROM GOD CAME UPON SAUL, AND HE PROPHESIED IN THE MIDST OF THE HOUSE: AND DAVID PLAYED WITH HIS HAND, AS AT OTHER TIMES: AND THERE WAS A JAVELIN IN SAUL'S HAND._ On the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul. This rankling thoug... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAUL CAST THE JAVELIN; FOR HE SAID, I WILL SMITE DAVID EVEN TO THE WALL WITH IT. AND DAVID AVOIDED OUT OF HIS PRESENCE TWICE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEREFORE SAUL REMOVED HIM FROM HIM, AND MADE HIM HIS CAPTAIN OVER A THOUSAND; AND HE WENT OUT AND CAME IN BEFORE THE PEOPLE._ Therefore Saul removed him from him - sent him away from the court, where the principal persons, including his own son, were spell-bound with admiration of the young and p... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID BEHAVED HIMSELF WISELY IN ALL HIS WAYS; AND THE LORD WAS WITH HIM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAUL SAID TO DAVID, BEHOLD MY ELDER DAUGHTER MERAB, HER WILL I GIVE THEE TO WIFE: ONLY BE THOU VALIANT FOR ME, AND FIGHT THE LORD'S BATTLES. FOR SAUL SAID, LET NOT MINE HAND BE UPON HIM, BUT LET THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINES BE UPON HIM._ My elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife. Th... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SAID UNTO SAUL, WHO AM I? AND WHAT IS MY LIFE, OR MY FATHER'S FAMILY IN ISRAEL, THAT I SHOULD BE SON IN LAW TO THE KING?_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MICHAL SAUL'S DAUGHTER LOVED DAVID: AND THEY TOLD SAUL, AND THE THING PLEASED HIM._ Michal [Septuagint, Melchol], Saul's daughter, loved David. This must have happened some time after. THEY TOLD SAUL, AND THE THING PLEASED HIM - not from any favour to David, but he saw that it would be turne... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAUL SAID, I WILL GIVE HIM HER, THAT SHE MAY BE A SNARE TO HIM, AND THAT THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINES MAY BE AGAINST HIM. WHEREFORE SAUL SAID TO DAVID, THOU SHALT THIS DAY BE MY SON IN LAW IN THE ONE OF THE TWAIN._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAUL SAID, THUS SHALL YE SAY TO DAVID, THE KING DESIRETH NOT ANY DOWRY, BUT AN HUNDRED FORESKINS OF THE PHILISTINES, TO BE AVENGED OF THE KING'S ENEMIES. BUT SAUL THOUGHT TO MAKE DAVID FALL BY THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINES._ The king desireth not any dowry. In Eastern countries the husband purch... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN HIS SERVANTS TOLD DAVID THESE WORDS, IT PLEASED DAVID WELL TO BE THE KING'S SON IN LAW: AND THE DAYS WERE NOT EXPIRED._ The days were not expired - the period within which this exploit was to be achieved was not exhausted.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEREFORE DAVID AROSE AND WENT, HE AND HIS MEN, AND SLEW OF THE PHILISTINES TWO HUNDRED MEN; AND DAVID_ _ BROUGHT THEIR FORESKINS, AND THEY GAVE THEM IN FULL TALE TO THE KING, THAT HE MIGHT BE THE KING'S SON IN LAW. AND SAUL GAVE HIM MICHAL HIS DAUGHTER TO WIFE._ David ... slew of the Philistines... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAUL SAW AND KNEW THAT THE LORD WAS WITH DAVID, AND THAT MICHAL SAUL'S DAUGHTER LOVED HIM._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAUL WAS YET THE MORE AFRAID OF DAVID; AND SAUL BECAME DAVID'S ENEMY CONTINUALLY._ Saul was yet the more afraid of David - because Providence had visibly favoured him, by not only defeating the conspiracy against his life, but through his royal alliance paving his way to the throne.... [ Continue Reading ]