1Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
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Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. …
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. …
But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. …
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-14)Absalom is now in peaceable possession of Jerusalem; the palace-royal is his own, as are the thrones of judgment, even the thrones of the house of David . His good father reigned in Hebron, and only over the tribe of Judah, above seven years, and was not hasty to destroy his rival; his government was built upon a divine promise, the performance of which he was sure of in due time, and therefore he…
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