12And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
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But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.
I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-15)David, though king elect, is here an exile—designed to be master of vast treasures, yet just now begging his bread—anointed to the crown, and yet here forced to flee from his country. Thus do God’s providences sometimes seem to run counter to his promises, for the trial of his people’s faith, and the glorifying of his name, in the accomplishment of his counsels, notwithstanding the difficulties th…
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