Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.
      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.