9And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
And the king sware, and said, As the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress,
The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. …
Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-12)We have here justice done upon the murderers of Ish-bosheth. I. Sentence passed upon them. There needed no evidence, their own tongues witnessed against them; they were so far from denying the fact that they gloried in it. David therefore shows them the heinousness of the crime, and that blood called for blood from his hand, who was now the chief magistrate, and was by office the avenger of blood.…
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