8He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. …
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-11)The scope of these verses is to keep subjects loyal and dutiful to the government. In Solomon’s reign the people were very rich, and lived in prosperity, which perhaps made them proud and petulant, and when the taxes were high, though they had enough to pay them with, it is probable that many conducted themselves insolently towards the government and threatened to rebel. To such Solomon here gives…
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