30 Then Saul was moved to wrath against Jonathan, and he said to him, You son of an evil and uncontrolled woman, have I not seen how you have given your love to the son of Jesse, to your shame and the shame of your mother?
The man of pride, lifted up in soul, is named high-hearted; he is acting in an outburst of pride.
You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry; For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man.
He who is slow to be angry has great good sense; but he whose spirit is over-quick gives support to what is foolish.
Knowledge is dropping from the tongue of the wise; but from the mouth of the foolish comes a stream of foolish words.
A man of great wrath will have to take his punishment: for if you get him out of trouble you will have to do it again.
He whose spirit is uncontrolled is like an unwalled town which has been broken into.
But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be in danger of being judged; and he who says to his brother, Raca, will be in danger from the Sanhedrin; and whoever says, You foolish one, will be in danger of the hell of fire.
Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;
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Commentary on 1 Samuel 20 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 20
David, having several times narrowly escaped Saul's fury, begins to consider at last whether it may not be necessary for him to retire into the country and to take up arms in his own defence. But he will not do so daring a thing without consulting his faithful friend Jonathan; how he did this, and what passed between them, we have an account in this chapter, where we have as surprising instances of supernatural love as we had in the chapter before of unnatural hatred.
1Sa 20:1-8
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1Sa 20:9-23
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1Sa 20:24-34
Jonathan is here effectually convinced of that which he was so loth to believe, that his father had an implacable enmity to David, and would certainly be the death of him if it were in his power; and he had like to have paid very dearly himself for the conviction.
1Sa 20:35-42
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