6And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.
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When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.
And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem.
And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Here we have, I. The wickedness of Israel punished with a long famine, one of God’s sore judgments often threatened in the law. Canaan , that fruitful land, was turned into barrenness , for the iniquity of those that dwelt therein . The famine in Samaria was soon relieved by the raising of that siege, but neither that judgment nor that mercy had a due influence upon them, and therefore the Lord ca…
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