Saul Seeks to Kill David

191 Saul now urged his servants and his son Jonathan to assassinate David. But Jonathan, because of his strong affection for David,

Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Samuel 19:1

Commentary on 1 Samuel 19:1-10

(Read 1 Samuel 19:1-10)

How forcible are right words! Saul was, for a time, convinced of the unreasonableness of his enmity to David; but he continued his malice against David. So incurable is the hatred of the seed of the serpent against that of the woman; so deceitful and desperately wicked is the heart of man without the grace of God, Jeremiah 17:9.