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11False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge{H8799)} things that I knew{H8804)} not.
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Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; …
And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.
For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes: …
And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-16)Two very wicked things David here lays to the charge of his enemies, to make good his appeal to God against them—perjury and ingratitude. I. Perjury, Ps. 35:11. When Saul would have David attainted of treason, in order to his being outlawed, perhaps he did it with the formalities of a legal prosecution, produced witnesses who swore some treasonable words or overt acts against him, and he being not…
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