43And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
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Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces: …
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? …
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 40-43)David came over Jordan attended and assisted only by the men of Judah; but when he had advanced as far as Gilgal, the first stage on this side Jordan, half the people of Israel (that is, of their elders and great men) had come to wait upon him, to kiss his hand, and congratulate him on his return, but found they came too late to witness the solemnity of his first entrance. This put them out of hum…
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