9And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee: …
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)We have here David’s warm and pathetic speech to Saul, wherein he endeavours to convince him that he did him a great deal of wrong in persecuting him thus and to persuade him therefore to be reconciled. I. He calls him father (1 Sam. 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 favourabl…
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