15And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
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The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
Their feet are swift to shed blood:
And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.
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If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-17)Here is, I. Saul’s further design of mischief to David. When David had escaped the javelin, supposing he went straight to his own house, as indeed he did, Saul sent some of his guards after him to lay wait at the door of his house, and to assassinate him in the morning as soon as he stirred out, 1 Sam. 19:11. Josephus says the design was to seize him and to hurry him before a court of justice that…
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