David said to Saul, Why listen you to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks your hurt?
      I. He calls him father (1 Samuel 24:11; 1 Samuel 24:11), for he was not only, as king, the father of his country, but he was, in particular, his father-in-law. From a father one may expect compassion and a favourable opinion. For a prince to seek the ruin of any of his good subjects is as unnatural as for a father to seek the ruin of his own children.