16David therefore did as God commanded him: and they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gazer.
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If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.
And they gave unto them, of the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her suburbs,
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-17)This narrative of David’s triumph over the Philistines is much the same with that, 2 Sam. 5:17-25 1. Let the attack which the Philistines made upon David forbid us to be secure in any settlement or advancement, and engage us to expect molestation in this world. When we are most easy something or other may come to be a terror or vexation to us. Christ’s kingdom will thus be insulted by the serpent’…
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