John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 2. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, delighted much in David , etc.] In his company and conversation; he loved him with a love of complacency, and was constant and steadfast in it, and which was a kind providence to David; for by this means he came to the knowledge of Saul’s designs upon him, and could the better guard against him: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee ; to inform him of which was acting the part of a sincere and faithful friend: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed of thyself until the morning : it seems it was now evening when he informed him of it; and as he knew not what emissaries Saul might have out that night in quest of him, he advises him to take care of himself, and not expose himself to any danger, and to keep a strict guard about him; and in the morning he would try to conciliate his father to him, when he might hope, having slept upon it, that he would be in a better temper, and more disposed to hear what might be said to him: and abide in a secret [place], and hide thyself ; he seems to suggest as if it was not safe for him to be in his own house, and in his own bedchamber that night, but that it was advisable to retire to some private place, where it might not be known or suspected that he was there. By what follows he means some field, and a private place in it.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-10 - How forcible are right words! Saul was, for a time, convinced of the unreasonableness of his enmity to David; but he continued his malic against David. So incurable is the hatred of the seed of the serpen against that of the woman; so deceitful and desperately wicked is the heart of man without the grace of God, Jer 17:9.
Original Hebrew ויגד5046 יהונתן3083 לדוד1732 לאמר559 מבקשׁ1245 שׁאול7586 אבי1 להמיתך4191 ועתה6258 השׁמר8104 נא4994 בבקר1242 וישׁבת3427 בסתר5643 ונחבאת׃2244
