Saul’s rashness becomes more and more apparent. He now adds an additional oath, to bring down yet further guilt for “taking God’s name in vain.” Th…

Though it be in Jonathan my son. —“Were Jonathan himself the transgressor, he [Saul] would not …

For as the Lord lives, which saves Israel
And had saved them that day with a great salvation and had wrought a great…

If God turns away our prayer, we have reason to suspect it is for some sin harboured in our hearts, which we should find out, that we may put it aw…