17And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
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And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-28)An instance is here given of Solomon’s wisdom, to show that the grant lately made him had a real effect upon him. The proof is fetched, not from the mysteries of state and the policies of the council-board, though there no doubt he excelled, but from the trial and determination of a cause between party and party, which princes, though they devolve them upon their judges, must not think it below th…
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