Verse 44<\/span>. And Saul answered – thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.<\/B><\/I>] 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<\/I>, who were the JURY?<\/P> <\/p>\n From this and other like expressions of Sauls, some gather that he was exceeding prone to the vice of swearing and cursing. <\/P> Thou shalt surely die:<\/B> strange perverseness! He who was so indulgent as to spare wicked Agag, 1Sa 15<\/span>, is now so severe as to destroy his own worthy son: he that could easily dispense with Gods righteous and reasonable command, will not bear the violation of his own rash and foolish command; because his own authority and power is concerned in this, and only Gods in the other. <\/P> <\/p>\n And Saul answered, God do so and more also<\/strong>,…. A form of an oath imprecating evils upon him more and greater than he chose to mention, see the like form in Ru 1:17<\/span>, 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:<\/p>\n for thou shall surely die, Jonathan<\/strong>; 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.<\/p>\n “Thou shall surely die, Jonathan” 1Sa 14:44<\/span><\/em> .<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n It is king Saul who speaks. Saul, like most men, could be intensely conscientious at times. Something had been done which had offended the king, and he proceeded to examine the people that he might know wherein the sin had been done, “For,” said he, “as the Lord liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.” Afterwards the lot was taken. The lot fell between Saul and Jonathan; it was taken once more, and the lot fell upon Jonathan. “Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.” Saul lifted himself up in great moral dignity and said, “God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.” These demonstrations of piety or of conscience are always to be guarded against. Ostentatious obedience is very likely to be disobedience. Many men make up for their neglect and even their sin in the ordinary courses of life by doing exceptional things, which are intended to show how grand is their moral dignity. Many a man will be neglectful at home, and yet on some anniversary day will attempt to do an action which is supposed to redeem the reputation or to cover all the neglect and cruelty of the whole year. Many a man will make himself obnoxious to the Church, and become quite a stumbling-block in the way of others, and, then in some fit of enthusiasm will give a large sum of money, or will do some deed that will excite attention and create amazement, and on the strength of that deed will relapse into his former undesirable and repulsive condition. There is a technical consecration; there is a merely conventional piety that lives in ostentation, and that boasts of exceptional and heroic deeds; a piety that comes out. once a year, or that appears biennially or septennially, and does a momentary wonder, and then relapses into the commonplace of selfishness and worldliness of soul. Occasional bigness does but throw into the greater contrast habitual littleness. When a man can be heroic upon occasion he forgets that he is proving that he can be heroic in the general tenor of his life if he so resolve. Sometimes our very greatest efforts are simply witnesses against us. They are not taken in their isolation, but they are taken in their relation to our whole life, and they excite the inquiry, Why could not the man who did so great a deed today live a higher life than he is accustomed to live? We cannot make up in one act for the neglect of a lifetime. Piety is a daily consecration, a continual service, an hourly attention to things divine.<\/p>\n 1Sa 14:44 And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.<\/p>\n Ver. 44. And Saul answered, God do so and more also.<\/strong> ] It appeareth that Saul was a great swearer. Et rationem maiorem habebat iurameuti quam iuris, &c.<\/em> a<\/em> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.<\/strong> ] This was sharp law; as was afterwards that of Manlius the Roman, who condemned his own son to death for slaying an enemy without his command: whereupon sharp and severe commands were usually called Manliana, saith Gellius. b<\/em> But what an abhorred cruelty was that of Philip, king of Spain, who delivered up his eldest son Charles to be murdered by the cruel Inquisition, because he seemed to favour the reformed religion!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n a<\/em> Jun. <\/p>\n b<\/em> Lib. ix., cap. 13. Jerome. Catin.<\/p>\n do so. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, add “unto me”. <\/p>\n God: 1Sa 25:22, Rth 1:17, 2Sa 3:9, 2Sa 19:13 <\/p>\n thou shalt: 1Sa 14:39, Gen 38:24, 2Sa 12:5, 2Sa 12:31, Pro 25:16 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 2:17 – surely Jdg 11:31 – shall surely Jdg 11:35 – I cannot 1Sa 22:16 – Thou shalt 2Sa 21:2 – in his zeal 1Ki 2:23 – God 2Ki 6:31 – God do so Rom 9:3 – were<\/p>\n 1Sa 14:44-45. Thou shalt surely die, Jonathan This again was most rashly spoken. Saul, however, seems to have been influenced by a real fear of God, and certainly is to be commended for having a greater regard to his oath than to his kindred and natural affection. The people said, Shall Jonathan die? Hitherto they had expressed themselves in a way that manifested their obedience to Saul, and acquiesced in what seemed good to him. But now that Jonathan is in danger, Sauls word is no longer a law to them; but with the utmost zeal they oppose the execution of his sentence. Who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel Shall that life be sacrificed which was so bravely exposed for the public service, and to which we owe our lives and triumphs? No, we will never stand by and see him thus treated whom God has delighted to honour. As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground Saul had sworn that he should die; but they oppose their oath to his, and swear he shall not die. They did not rescue him by violence, but by reason and resolution. And Josephus says, They offered prayers to God that he would forgive Jonathans sin, and that he might be loosed from the curse. He hath wrought with God this day It is plain the blessing and favour of God have been with him. It has been in concurrence with God that he has wrought this salvation. And God is so far from being offended with Jonathan, that he hath graciously owned him in the great services of this day. We may suppose Saul had not so perfectly forgot the relation of a father, but that he was willing enough to have Jonathan rescued, and well pleased to have that done which yet he would not do himself; and he that knows the heart of a father, knows not how to blame him.<\/p>\n It may be edifying to the reader, and therefore not improper to copy here, the following important observations of a late but anonymous writer, on the foregoing verses: It may, at first sight, appear strange that the Divine Providence should so order things, by giving no answer to the high-priest, and causing the lots so to fall, that Jonathan, who appears entirely guiltless, should be brought into imminent danger of his life. If we consider this only in respect to Jonathan, it does indeed appear unaccountable; but if we take in his father Saul, it will appear to have been an act of divine wisdom. It is manifest, as well from the unnecessary and unprofitable oath that Saul here exacted from the people, as from many other passages of his life, that Saul was of a hasty, precipitate temper. What better lesson then could God give to him, and to all of such hasty, precipitate tempers, than to bring him into the grievous strait of either breaking a solemn oath or putting his own son to death? That this was the main intention of all that happened on this occasion appears evident, in that God inspired the people with such a courage and love for Jonathan, that they would not, upon any terms, permit even a hair of his head to fall to the ground. For we cannot suppose, if God had intended to punish Jonathan, as guilty of any crime, that the disposition of the people could have prevented his purposes, though they did those of Saul, which had no foundation in justice.<\/p>\n And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan. Verse 44. And Saul answered – thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.] To save thy rash oath! 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