Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.
Ver. 33. Ye have transgressed.] But whose fault was it that they thus transgressed? Was not his rash edict or ordinance the occasion of the people's trasgressing God's ordinance? This was never thought on by him.
Roll a great stone unto me this day.] That I may see the blood clean drained out of the flesh before it be eaten. But he that maketh so much ado about eating with the blood, makes nothing of spilling the blood of innocent Jonathan, and of swearing bloody oaths at the same time.