24And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.
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But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: …
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. …
The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-25)Here is, I. Saul’s penitent confession of his fault and folly in persecuting David and his promise to do so no more. This second instance of David’s respect to him wrought more upon him than the former, and extorted from him better acknowledgements, 1 Sam. 26:21. 1. He owns himself melted and quite overcome by David’s kindness to him: “ My soul was precious in thy eyes this day , which, I thought,…
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