1 Samuel 20:10

By what means or messenger shall I understand this? for peradventure thou wilt not be able to come to me thyself.

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Arno Geneva Study Bible

Then said David to Jonathan, Who (f) shall tell me? or what [if] thy father answer thee roughly? (f) If your father favours me.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Samuel 20. David and Jonathan (J). 1 Samuel 20 has no obvious connexion with any of the preceding or following sections: And David fled from N...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly? Who shall tell me? - Who shall give me the necessary inf...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrific...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Friendship of David and Jonathan 4. Thy soul] a pathetic periphrasis for 'thou.'
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly? — The language in the original is here very abrupt and involved. Evidently the very w...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XXVII. DAVID AND JONATHAN. 1 Samuel 20:1-42 . WE have no means of determining how long time elapsed between the events recorded in the...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Friendship's Covenant 1 Samuel 20:1-16 Life becomes intolerable when suspense is long drawn out; hence David's appeal to his friend. Besides, h...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

David returned to Jonathan, and there follows an interesting and beautiful account of a time in which these two friends took counsel together about D...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(9) В¶ And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I tel...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then said David to Jonathan, who shall tell me ?.... The disposition of Saul's mind towards him, whether he gave a kind answer to the report of Jona...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what [if] thy father answer thee roughly? Ver. 10. Who shall tell me? ] Since thou canst neithe...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jonathan said, Far be it from thee Or, rather, Far be this away; for Jonathan is speaking of himself in this thing. Then said David, Who shall t...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

David however was fearful of the very presence of Saul at Naioth. He left there and returned back to find Jonathan, apparently hoping to find some po...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jonathan's Covenant with David. B. C. 1058....
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jonathan Explains His Plan For Letting David Know What The Situation Is, And Renews Their Firm Covenant ( 1 Samuel 20:10-24 a). In response to Da...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 20:1 . “And David fled,” while Saul was still under the power of the prophetic influence. “Nothing coul...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Samuel 20:5 . The new moon, a day of feasting and trumpets, accompanied with the exercises of devotion. Numbers 10:16 . 1 Samuel 20:6 . Run...
The Biblical Illustrator

And David fled from Naioth, in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan. David and Jonathan 1. It will be suitable for us to dwell on the remar...
The Biblical Illustrator

What if thy father answer thee roughly? A word for the persecuted I. Our first point is, what you may do, what there is a possibility of you do...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

JONATHAN ENDEAVOURS TO RECONCILE SAUL TO DAVID ( 1 Samuel 20:1-9 .). EXPOSITION JONATHAN 'S COVENANT WITH DAVID RENEWED...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Conference between David and Jonathan
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? He wondered how he could get the information about Saul's decree concerning himself, for the matter w...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 12:13 ; 1 Samuel 20:30-34 ; 1 Samuel 25:10 ; 1 Samuel 25:14 ; 1 Samuel 25:17 ; Genesis 42:30 ; Genesis 42:7 ; Proverbs 18:23

¹⁰ Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?

Related Commentaries of 1 Samuel 20:10

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 20:10