6And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.
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And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned.
In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross. …
It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)It is hard to say which is more astonishing, God’s permitting or men’s perpetrating such villanies as here we find committed. Such base, barbarous, bloody work is here done by men who by their birth should have been men of honour, by their religion just men, and this done upon those of their own nature, their own nation, their own religion, and now their brethren in affliction, when they were all…
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