3 and I—I go out, and have stood by the side of my father in the field where thou 'art', and I speak of thee unto my father, and have seen what 'is coming', and have declared to thee.'

Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Samuel 19:3

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.