6Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.
And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.
And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Most interpreters are of opinion that Lemuel is Solomon; the name signifies one that is for God , or devoted to God ; and so it agrees well enough with that honourable name which, by divine appointment, was given to Solomon (2 Sam. 12:25), Jedediah—beloved of the Lord . Lemuel is supposed to be a pretty, fond, endearing name, by which his mother used to call him; and so much did he value himself u…
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