11Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
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They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. …
They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it? …
Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)We left Jehoshaphat, in the foregoing chapter, well employed in reforming his kingdom and providing for the due administration of justice and support of religion in it, and expected nothing but to hear of the peace and prosperity of his reign; but here we have him in distress, which distress, however, was followed by such a glorious deliverance as was an abundant recompence for his piety. If we me…
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