And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
Ver. 9. And Saul eyed David.] Limis intuebatur, he looked upon him with an evil eye: prying into all his actions, and making the worst of everything.
From that day and forward.] Discovering that lernam vitiorum, world of wickedness, that was in his own heart. Sooner or later a hypocrite will show himself; how else should his name rot?
3. JONATHAN AND DAVID--SAUL'S JEALOUSY CHAPTER 18 _ 1. Jonathan's love for David (1 Samuel 18:1)_ 2. The beginning of Saul's jealousy (1 Samuel 18:5) 3. David's marriage (1 Samuel 18:17)...
SAUL'S JEALOUSY (J). The victors, as they return, are greeted by the women with songs and dances; Saul's jealousy is aroused because David's achievements are spoken of as greater than his....
_Saul eyed David_ With a suspicious jealousy which soon ripened into a deadly hatred. There is no need to suppose that David's anointing by Samuel had been reported to him. "The prophet had distinctly...
The celebration of David's victory 6. _And it came to pass_, &c. The narrative has made a digression to relate the circumstances of David's permanent reception into Saul's service, the commencement of...
DISCOURSE: 303 SAUL’S ENVY OF DAVID 1 Samuel 18:9. _And Saul eyed David from that day and forward_. THERE is not a baser principle in the human heart than envy. If we notice the connexion in which it...
THE WOMEN CAME OUT—SINGING AND DANCING— See Exodus 1:20. Saul probably received his first suspicion that _David_ was that _neighbour of his who was better than himself,_ to whom the Lord, as Samuel ha...
_Saul's Jealousy of David._ 1 Samuel 18:5-9 5 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 a...
_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 malign...
THE LOVE OF JONATHAN FOR DAVID 1 Samuel 18:6 of this chapter seem to be connected with 1 Samuel 16:14 and not to be taken from the same document as 1 Samuel 17:1 to...
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 18 V1 David finished talking with Saul. Jonathan, Saul’s son, became a very close friend with David. Jonathan loved David as much as he loved...
AND SAUL EYED DAVID. — From the hour on which the king listened to the people’s lilt in honour of the young hero, in Saul’s distempered mind hate alternated with love. He still in his heart longed for...
וַ יְהִ֥י שָׁא֖וּל _עֹויֵ֣ן_† אֶת ־דָּוִ֑ד מֵ...
CHAPTER XXV. _ SAUL'S JEALOUS-DAVID'S MARRIAGE._ 1 Samuel 18:1. THE conqueror of Goliath had been promised, as his reward, the eldest daughter of the king in marriage. The fulfillment of that promis...
A LOYAL FRIEND AND A JEALOUS ENEMY 1 Samuel 17:55; 1 Samuel 18:1 These verses make very good reading. They present the one ray of light in a story which, from this point on, becomes more and more som...
Here, in the account of Jonathan and David, begins one of the most perfect stories of love and friendship in the world. The story is all the more beautiful because of its dark background. Love is in i...
And Saul (d) eyed David from that day and forward. (d) Because he envied and hated him....
_Eye. Septuagint, "and Saul suspected." (Haydock) --- Chaldean, "laid snares for David." (Calmet)_...
Now that we have heard the prophet's judgment of king Saul, there follows next the choice of Jehovah. The chapter gives us in a very striking manner the manifest sentence of death on all the thoughts...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 18 AND 19. But when Christ makes Himself known, the remnant (which Jonathan represented) loves Him as his own soul, and this beloved one becomes the object of...
AND SAUL EYED DAVID FROM THAT DAY AND FORWARD. Instead of looking pleasantly, and with a smile, upon him, as a courtier and favourite, he was justly entitled to by his gallant behaviour, he looked at...
_The women came out of all the cities_ All the neighbouring cities. _And the women answered one another as they played_ They sang, as well as played on musical instruments. And they sang alternately,...
1 Ionathan loueth Dauid. 5 Saul enuieth his praise, 10 Seeketh to kill him in his furie, 12 Feareth him for his good successe, 17 Offereth him his daughters for a snare. 22 Dauid perswaded to be...
And Saul eyed David from that day and forward, he looked upon him with envious suspicion....
Saul's Regard Changes to Hatred...
Jonathan, the son of Saul stands in refreshing contrast to his father. He was present when David returned to Saul. Doubtless David's victory had attracted Jonathan, but David's words decide him. When...
6-11 David's troubles not only immediately follow his triumphs, but arise from them; such is the vanity of that which seems greatest in this world. It is a sign that the Spirit of God is departed fro...
i.e. Narrowly observed all his counsels and actions, that he might understand whether he had any design upon the kingdom or no, and that he might find some colourable pretence of putting him to death....
1 Samuel 18:9 Saul H7586 eyed H5770 (H8802) David H1732 day H3117 forward H1973 eyed David -...
DAVID'S MILITARY SUCCESS AND SAUL'S GROWING SUSPICION AND AWE OF DAVID (1 SAMUEL 18:5). It will be noted that this passage comes between two inclusios in 1 Samuel 18:5 and 1 Samuel 18:15. In...
CONTENTS: Love covenant of Jonathan and David. Saul's jealousy and attempts on David's life. Saul's daughter given to David. CHARACTERS: God, David, Saul, Jonathan, Merab, Michal, Adriel. CONCLUSION:...
1 Samuel 18:4. _Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David._ This was the highest mark of favour he could show him, and it is still esteemed as such in the oriental...
_And Saul eyed David from that day and forward._ DAVID’S ENEMY-SAUL It is the enmity of Saul which we are to consider--its beginning, its rapid growth, its deadly purpose. The excitement of the war b...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 18:6 As David’s success increases, Saul’s jealousy also increases. ⇐ ⇔...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 18:7 SAUL HAS STRUCK DOWN HIS THOUSANDS, AND DAVID HIS TEN THOUSANDS could be seen as simply an example of Hebrew parallelism, meaning “Saul and David together have killed ma...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 18:5. “DAVID WENT OUT.” “That this refers to war and not to general business is plain, not only from the following account, which mentions not only military un...
PERSONAL RELATIONS OF SAUL AND DAVID (CHS. 18-27). FRIENDSHIP OF DAVID AND JONATHAN (CHS. 18-20). EXPOSITION JONATHAN LOVES DAVID ...
Now when it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan [Saul's son was just sort of] knit with the soul of David, Jonathan loved him as himself (1 Samuel 18:1...
Ephesians 4:27; Genesis 31:2; Genesis 4:5; Genesis 4:6; James 5:9;...