9Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.
And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?
After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?
Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-14)We here find how David bore Shimei’s curses much better than he had borne Ziba’s flatteries. By the latter he was brought to pass a wrong judgment on another, by the former to pass a right judgment on himself. The world’s smiles are more dangerous than its frowns. Observe here, I. How insolent and furious Shimei was, and how his malice took occasion from David’s present distress to be so much the…
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