Psalms 35:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

Psalms 35:11 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 27:12
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
Matthew 26:59-60
Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; …
1 Samuel 25:10
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.
Acts 24:5-6
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: …
Acts 6:13
And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:

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Backbiting Enemy False Teachers Forgiveness Friends Gossip Ingratitude Murmuring

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

11. False witnesses--literally, “Witnesses of injustice and cruelty” (compare Psa 11:5; 25:19).