Jonathan — God so ordered the lot; not that he approved Saul's execration, 1 Samuel 14:24, or his oath that the transgressor should die, 1 Samuel 14:39, nor that he would expose Jonathan to death; but that Saul's folly might be chastised, when he saw what danger it had brought upon his eldest and excellent son; and that Jonathan's innocency might be cleared.
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1 Samuel 14:42
42 And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.