1 Samuel 20:2-3
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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- Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 20
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- Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - 1 Samuel 20:2
- Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - 1 Samuel 20:3
1 Samuel 20:2-3. Behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will shew it me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so. And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes: and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.
He had so often escaped, as it were by the skin of his teeth, from his cruel persecutor, that he knew himself to be in a position of extreme peril.