SEV Biblia, Chapter 14:44
Y Saúl respondió: Así me haga Dios y así me añada, que sin duda morirás, Jonatán.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 14:44
Verse 44. And Saul answered-thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.] To save thy rash oath! So must John Baptist's head be taken off at the desire of an impure woman, because a Herod had sworn to give her whatever she might request! Unfeeling brute! However, the king was JUDGE. But what said the people, who were the JURY?
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 44. And Saul answered, God do so and more also , etc.] A form of an oath imprecating evils upon him more and greater than he chose to mention, see the like form in ( Ruth 1:17), though Abarbinel thinks this is not the form of an oath, but an asseveration of a curse that would befall him; as that God would not answer him when he inquired of him, and that he would add to do so again and again, if he died not: for thou shall surely die, Jonathan ; such words from a father must be very striking to a son, and argue a want of paternal affection in Saul, that could call his son by his name, and deliver such a speech unto him in so strong a manner.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 36-46 - If God turns away our prayer, we have reason to suspect it is for some sin harboured in our hearts, which we should find out, that we may pu it away, and put it to death. We should always first suspect an examine ourselves; but an unhumbled heart suspects every other person and looks every where but at home for the sinful cause of calamity Jonathan was discovered to be the offender. Those most indulgent to their own sins are most severe upon others; those who most disregar God's authority, are most impatient when their own commands ar slighted. Such as cast abroad curses, endanger themselves and their families. What do we observe in the whole of Saul's behaviour on thi occasion, but an impetuous, proud, malignant, impious disposition? An do we not in every instance perceive that man, left to himself, betray the depravity of his nature, and is enslaved to the basest tempers.
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 שׁאול 7586 כה 3541 יעשׂה 6213 אלהים 430 וכה 3541 יוסף 3254 כי 3588 מות 4191 תמות 4191 יונתן׃ 3129
