David Mourns Saul and Jonathan's Deaths. II Samuel 1

 

II Samuel -David Mourns Saul and Jonathan’s Deaths.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

War and defeat had come to the Israelites because they were out of the will of God. “There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.” Isa. 57:21. Isaiah said that three times. I wonder if that might not be applicable to us today.

David did not know what happened in the battle. He and his men had been recovering their loved ones from the Amalekites. They had been back in Ziklag for two days without hearing a word. Then disheveled man stumbled into David’s camp. He said that he came from the war. He told David that the Philistines had won the war and that Saul was dead. This young man confessed to David what he had done, and it sounds as though he expected David to give him a medal for his deed.

If this man did slay Saul, it was because Saul had disobeyed God when he refused to slay all the Amalekites back in I Samuel. Had Saul obeyed God, this man would not have been alive to kill him, and perhaps Saul would have survived. David asked this man how it was that he was unafraid to touch the Lord’s anointed.

As long as Saul was king, David would not touch him. No one else had better touch him either because God is the one who put the crown on his head, and God should be the one to take it off when the time comes. David told him, “If you have lied to me, then your blood is upon you, because you confessed that you killed the Lord’s anointed.”

No one could say that either Saul or Jonathan was a coward. Saul had brought prosperity to the land. David and Jonathan were bosom friends. They loved each other. David’s grief is sincere. This is a tremendous tribute to Jonathan in particular. David’s grief over the deaths of Saul and Jonathan is touching. It is one of the most striking lamentations in the Word of God.

 

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J. Vernon McGee Commentary and Nelson’s Quick Reference Commentary.