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14I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down{H8804)} heavily{H8802)}, as one that mourneth for his mother.
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And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, …
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him: …
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son: …
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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