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Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David. See also: 1 Samuel 18:11 Samuel 18:9Jonathan told David, saying, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, live in a secret place, and hide yourself. See also: Proverbs 17:17Acts 9:241 John 3:12-14I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will talk with my father about you; and if I see anything, I will tell you.” See also: 1 Samuel 20:91 Samuel 20:13Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you; See also: Jeremiah 18:20Genesis 42:22Proverbs 31:8-9for he put his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?” See also: 1 Chronicles 11:141 Samuel 11:131 Samuel 20:32Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan; and Saul swore, “As the LORD lives, he shall not be put to death.” See also: Proverbs 26:24-25Jeremiah 5:21 Samuel 14:39Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as before. See also: 1 Samuel 16:211 Samuel 18:131 Samuel 18:2There was war again. David went out and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him. See also: Psalms 18:32-50Psalms 27:3An evil spirit from the LORD was on Saul as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing music with his hand. See also: 1 Samuel 16:141 Samuel 18:10-111 Samuel 16:16Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence; and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled and escaped that night. See also: 1 Samuel 20:331 Samuel 18:11Proverbs 21:30Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.” See also: Psalms 59:1-17Judges 16:2So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped. See also: Joshua 2:152 Corinthians 11:32-33Acts 9:24-25Michal took the teraphim and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head and covered it with clothes. See also: Genesis 31:19Judges 18:17Judges 18:14When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.” See also: Joshua 2:52 Samuel 17:202 Samuel 16:17-19Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.” See also: Romans 3:15Proverbs 27:3-4Job 31:31When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head. Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’” See also: 2 Samuel 2:22Exodus 1:17-191 Samuel 19:14Now David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth. See also: 1 Samuel 7:171 Samuel 28:3Psalms 116:11Saul was told, saying, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.” See also: 1 Samuel 26:11 Samuel 23:191 Samuel 22:9-10Saul sent messengers to seize David; and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied. See also: Joel 2:281 Samuel 10:5-6John 7:32When Saul was told, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied. See also: Jeremiah 13:23Joel 2:282 Kings 1:9-13Then he also went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu: and he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” One said, “Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.” He went there to Naioth in Ramah. Then God’s Spirit came on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah. See also: Proverbs 16:91 Samuel 10:10Numbers 24:2He also stripped off his clothes. He also prophesied before Samuel and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?” See also: Isaiah 20:21 Samuel 10:10-12Micah 1:8
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
1 Samuel 19:1
Ver. 1. Jonathan. He was most interested, as David might be feared as a competitor; (M.) and, under the cloak of friendship, he might more easily destroy him. Saul was a stranger to the generous sentiments of his son, or he would never have made the proposal. H. --- Grotius compares him with Germanicus. C.
↑ 11 Samuel 19:2
Ver. 2. Morning. Sept. add, "to-morrow." M.
↑ 21 Samuel 19:3
Ver. 3. Field. Saul would come thither, or Jonathan would sound his father's disposition, and give David information in the place appointed. C.
↑ 31 Samuel 19:3
Ver. 3. Hand, in danger. M.
↑ 31 Samuel 19:6
Ver. 6. Slain. His inconstant temper might cause him to be moved with the expostulation of his son; but he presently relapsed, if he were ever sincere. C.
--- The Scripture seems to insinuate that he was. M.
↑ 61 Samuel 19:9
Ver. 9. Saul. His jealousy was again enkindled by the success of David. C. ---
Hand, on music, to assuage the paroxysms o the king's fury. H.
↑ 91 Samuel 19:11
Ver. 11. Morning, fearing lest they might miss him in the night, (Salien) and perhaps desiring to see his execution, after he had been tried. Joseph. --- The Philistines would not attack Samson at night. See Judg. xvi. 2. Ex. xiv. 20. The Parthians and Mahometans will do nothing at that time; moved perhaps by some superstitious notion. C.
↑ 111 Samuel 19:13
Ver. 13. Image. Heb. Teraphim. Aquila, "figures." Sym. "idols." Some believe that David had idols in his house, as ornaments, or to treat them with ignominy. Mercer. --- But others cannot persuade themselves that he would keep such dangerous things. What Michol took, might therefore be some sacred representation, or a statue of some great man. Genebrard. (Kimchi.
Maim.) Or it might be some piece of wood, or clothes folded up, so as to make the guards believe that David was in bed. Bochart, Anim. i. 2. 51. See Gen. xxxi.
19. C. --- They would not examine very narrowly. H. --- The Taraphim denote both idolatrous and sacred things. Ose. iii.
4. M. --- Skin. Vat. and Alex. Sept. "liver," still warm and in motion. T. --- But they have followed a false reading, as well as Josephus and Aquila. C. --- Some have inferred that the hair of goats in that country is reddish, because it was designed to resemble David's hair, of the same colour. T. --- This is, however, uncertain. The skin might form his pillow or coverlet. C.
↑ 131 Samuel 19:14
Ver. 14. Sick. This is an officious lie. She tells another to excuse herself, v. 17.
The children of Saul strive to prevent their father's cruelty, by taking part with the innocent David. H. --- It is thought that David composed the 68th Psalm, Eripe, &c. on this occasion. C.
↑ 141 Samuel 19:19
Ver. 19. Najoth. It was probably a school or college or prophets, in or near Ramatha, under the direction of Samuel. Ch. --- Chal. "in the house of doctrine." See C. x. 5. M.
↑ 191 Samuel 19:20
Ver. 20. Prophesying. That is, singing praises to God by a divine impulse. God was pleased on this occasion that both Saul's messengers and himself should experience the like impulse, that he might understand, by this instance of the divine power, how vain are the designs of man against him whom God protects. Ch. --- The messengers did not return. M. --- They were seized by the spirit only when they arrived at Najoth. But Saul felt the impression even at Socho, threw aside his garments, and began to act and to speak as one inspired. C.
↑ 201 Samuel 19:24
Ver. 24. Naked. Divested of his regal ornaments, (T.) though not in an indecent posture. People are said to be undressed, when they have not such clothes on as might be expected. Hesiod and Virgil say, Nudus ara, sere nudus; hiems ignava colono. "Plough and sow naked; choose a fine season for work, and rest in winter." H. See Mic. i. 8. 2 K. vi. 20. --- Yet some assert (C.) that Saul was entirely undressed, as some pretended prophets and slaves go in the hot countries. Isai.
xx. 1. We are not to judge of the indecency of such behaviour from our own manners. Some copies read cecinit, (C.) and the Douay Bible has "and sang naked." H. --- Saul had not the gift of prophecy, like holy men, but only like Balaam's ass, for a time. S. Aug. ad Simp. ii. 1. W. ---
Prophets. This is something wonderful. M. --- The proverb was now confirmed.
C. x. 11. C.
↑ 24License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses