Sauls rashness becomes more and more apparent. He now adds an additional oath, to bring down yet further guilt in taking Gods name in vain The expressions in 1Sa 14:36<\/span>, 1Sa 14:40<\/span>, indicate the fear in which the people stood of Saul. None dared to resist his will.<\/P><\/p>\n None of those who either saw Jonathan eating, or heard of it, informed against him; partly because they were satisfied that his ignorance excused him, and that there was some other reason of Gods not answering; and partly from their great love to Jonathan, whom they would not expose to death for so small an offence. <\/P> <\/p>\n For as the Lord liveth, which saveth Israel<\/strong>,…. And had saved them that day with a great salvation and had wrought a great deliverance for them in freeing them from the Philistines, who had threatened the ruin of the whole nation. This is the form of an oath:<\/p>\n though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die<\/strong>; that is, though the sin should be found in him, or he should be found guilty of the breach of what he had charged them with an oath to observe, namely, to eat no food that day till evening:<\/p>\n but there was not a man among all the people that answered him<\/strong>; who knew that Jonathan had tasted of honey, but they would not acquaint him with it; partly because they knew he did it ignorantly, having no knowledge of his father’s charge and oath, and partly because of their great affection to him, who had been the instrument of their deliverance and salvation that day.<\/p>\n (39) Though it be<\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>in Jonathan my son.<\/strong>Were Jonathan himself the transgressor, he [Saul] would not spare his life; and so, feeling inwardly bound by his oath, presses for decision by means of the sacred lot, amid the ominous silence of the horror-stricken people.Ewald. 1Sa 14:39 For, [as] the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But [there was] not a man among all the people [that] answered him.<\/p>\n Ver. 39. For, as the Lord liveth.<\/strong> ] Saul seemeth to have been a very great swearer, rapping out oath upon oath, which belike he thought he might do by authority. Chrysostom a<\/em> rightly condemneth this oath of his, how specious soever, Ut temerarium et parricidale, ideoque a Diabolo suggestum,<\/em> as rash and bloody, suggested by the very devil, for a public mischief. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n He shall surely die.<\/strong> ] This law was like those of Draco, that punished every peccadillo almost with death; and was therefore said to be written not with black, but with blood. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n a<\/em> Hom. xiv., Ad Pop. Antioch.<\/p>\n 1Sa 14:24, 1Sa 14:44, 1Sa 19:6, 1Sa 20:31, 1Sa 22:16, 1Sa 28:10, 2Sa 12:5, Ecc 9:2 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 2:17 – surely Jos 7:15 – he that is 1Sa 14:1 – Jonathan 2Sa 14:21 – I have done 1Ki 1:29 – As the 1Ki 17:12 – As the Lord 2Ki 5:20 – as the Lord liveth 1Ch 10:2 – Jonathan Job 27:2 – God liveth Jon 1:7 – for Mat 14:9 – the oath’s<\/p>\n 1Sa 14:39. As the Lord liveth Here again we have a proof of Sauls rashness and folly, and of the violence and impetuosity of his temper. As he had before adjured the people, and exposed them to an execration uttered most inconsiderately; so now he lays himself under an execration to put to death, as it turned out, even his son Jonathan, who had been the first and almost sole instrument of effecting this glorious deliverance for Israel, and that for no other fault than tasting a little honey, without knowing that he had thereby exposed himself to his fathers curse. But not a man answered him None of those that saw Jonathan eating informed against him; because they were satisfied that his ignorance excused him; and from their great love to Jonathan, whom they would not expose to death for so small an offence.<\/p>\n For, [as] the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But [there was] not a man among all the people [that] answered him. Sauls rashness becomes more and more apparent. He now adds an additional oath, to bring down yet further guilt in taking Gods name … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Samuel 14:39”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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