20And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
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For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. …
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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