4And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
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And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion on me.
And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. …
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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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