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6When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.
And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, That the men of Jabeshgilead were they that buried Saul. …
Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. …
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son: …
Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-10)Here, I. David desires to be told of his faults. His enemies reproached him with that which was false, which he could not but complain of; yet, at the same time, he desired his friends would reprove him for that which was really amiss in him, particularly if there was any thing that gave the least colour to those reproaches (Ps. 141:5): let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness . The righ…
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