1 Samuel 20:30 meaning and explanation
Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the disgrace of the mother who bore you?
1 Samuel 20:30, Berean Standard Bible
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Saul speaks these words to his son Jonathan at the New Moon feast, after David's empty seat exposed the friendship Saul now sees as betrayal. Saul's insult is crude and shaming, aimed not only at Jonathan but at his mother, and it reveals how far the king has fallen from the calm ruler of earlier chapters.
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