1 Samuel 19:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And he stripped off his clothes also His royal robes. Perhaps this was intended to signify the taking away of his kingdom from him; and lay down Hebrew, fell down, upon the earth; for his mind being in an ecstasy, he had not the use of his senses; God so ordering it, that David might have an opportunity to escape; naked That is, stripped of his upper garments, as the word naked is often used; and it is here repeated to signify how long he lay in that posture. Day and night So God kept him as it were in chains, till David was got out of his reach. Is Saul also among the prophets? The same proverb which was used before is here revived, as an evidence of God's wonderful care over David; he made Saul, in some sort, a prophet, that he might make David a king.