And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what [is] mine iniquity? and what [is] my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?
Ver. 1. And David fled from Naioth in Ramah.] To Gibeah of Saul, which is twelve miles from Ramah, say some, a and where Jonathan was resident and president in his father's absence. Hither David was hunted "as a partridge in the mountains"; and so hard bestead, that he knew not whither to betake him, unless it were to heaven (as he did, Psa 11:1-7 throughout), and to his fast friend Jonathan, who did his utmost for him when he was forlorn and forsaken of his hopes: God being now fitting him for the kingdom, by making "his soul even as a weaned child." Psa 131:2
That he seeketh my life.] There could no other reason be given of it, but that Saul was an unreasonable and wicked, or troublesome, man, 2Th 3:2 acted and agitated by that old man-slayer, "who worketh effectually in the children of disobedience," Eph 2:2 as a smith worketh in his forge. Poor David found the doing of anything or of nothing dangerous alike; such was the malice of his enemy, who was captain of the devil's sworn swordmen.
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