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23Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
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Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? …
Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds; …
And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him. …
For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.
And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23)See here, 1. How David was abused even by great men, who should have known better his character and his case, and have been more generous: Princes did sit , sit in council, sit in judgment, and speak against me . What even princes say is not always right; but it is sad when judgment is thus turned to wormwood, when those that should be the protectors of the innocent are their betrayers. Herein Dav…
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