Charles Spurgeon Commentary 1 Samuel 20:1

"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?" — 1 Samuel 20:1 (ASV)

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?

David had an enemy upon the throne; and God gave him a friend in the heir to the throne. If you have an enemy, you also have a friend; God sets the one over against the other in his providence; you set the one over against the other in your thoughts, and be comforted by this. David might have been very heavy at heart about Saul, and so he was; but Jonathan came in to be the makeweight on the other side, and turn the scale in favor of the son of Jesse. Of him David inquired, What is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?