5And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?
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It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)Here is, I. David settling again in Ziklag, his own city, after he had rescued his family and friends out of the hands of the Amalekites (2 Sam. 1:1): He abode in Ziklag . Thence he was now sending presents to his friends (1 Sam. 30:26), and there he was ready to receive those that came into his interests; not men in distress and debt, as his first followers were, but persons of quality in their c…
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