SEV Biblia, Chapter 19:1
¶ Y habló Saúl a Jonatán su hijo, y a todos sus criados, para que matasen a David; mas Jonatán hijo de Saúl amaba a David en gran manera.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 19:1
Verse 1. That they should kill David.] Nothing less than the especial interposition of God could have saved David's life, when every officer about the king's person, and every soldier, had got positive orders to despatch him.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 1. And Saul spake to Jonathan his son , etc.] Who was heir to his crown; and though he knew he loved David, and was in strict friendship with him, yet he might hope, that as his succession to the kingdom was in danger, as he thought, and that David was his rival in it, his mind would be alienated from him; and that he would listen rather to a father than a friend, and would see where his true interest lay, and abandon David, yea, seek his ruin, which Saul was intent upon and to all his servants ; who yet pretended to love David, and as he himself said they did, and some of them might; with these he might rather hope to succeed, as they were attached to him, and might be secretly enemies of David, and therefore to these, as well as to his son, he spake, and gave his orders: that they should kill David ; as if he was a traitor, and an usurper of his throne, and one that had a design upon that, and upon his life; finding he could do nothing by the schemes, and snares, and stratagems, he used in a private manner, he grew outrageous and furious, and openly declared his views, and laid his injunctions on his son and servants to take away David’s life, as a very dangerous person to his crown and government.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 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 malic against David. So incurable is the hatred of the seed of the serpen against that of the woman; so deceitful and desperately wicked is the heart of man without the grace of God, Jer 17:9.
Original Hebrew
וידבר 1696 שׁאול 7586 אל 413 יונתן 3129 בנו 1121 ואל 413 כל 3605 עבדיו 5650 להמית 4191 את 853 דוד 1732 ויהונתן 3129 בן 1121 שׁאול 7586 חפץ 2654 בדוד 1732 מאד׃ 3966
