Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 20:14
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1 Samuel20:14
14 And thou shalt not onely while yet I live, shew me the kindness of the LORD , that I die not :
Or, And wiltst thou not, if I shall then be alive, (to wit, when the Lord shall be with thee, as he hath been with my Father, as he now said, i. e. when God shall have advanced thee to the Kingdom, as he did him): yea, wiltst thou not (the same Particle twice repeated for asseveration, i. e. I am well assured that thou wiltst) shew me the kindness of the Lord, i. e. either such kindness as the Lord hath shewed to thee in preserving thy life in the midst of so many, and such great dangers: or, that kindness to which thou hast engaged thy self, in the Covenant Sworn between thee and me in Gods presence.
That thou do not kill me or mine, as Princes of another Line use to kill the nearest Relations of the former Line, from whom the Kingdom was translated to them; which they do either by way of revenge, or in policy, and reason of State▪ to secure the Kingdom to themselves.
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