14There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
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And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-18)Solomon still recommends wisdom to us as necessary to the preserving of our peace and the perfecting of our business, notwithstanding the vanities and crosses which human affairs are subject to. He had said (Eccl. 9:11), Bread is not always to the wise ; yet he would not therefore be thought either to disparage, or to discourage, wisdom, no, he still retains his principle, that wisdom excels folly…
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