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5Which will not hearken{H8799)} to the voice of charmers{H8764)}, charming never so wisely{H8794)}.
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For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)We have reason to think that this psalm refers to the malice of Saul and his janizaries against David, because it bears the same inscription ( Al-taschith , and Michtam of David ) with that which goes before and that which follows, both which appear, by the title, to have been penned with reference to that persecution through which God preserved him ( Al-taschith—Destroy not ), and therefore the p…
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