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6They return{H8799)} at evening: they make a noise{H8799)} like a dog, and go round about{H8779)} the city.
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And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)The title of this psalm acquaints us particularly with the occasion on which it was penned; it was when Saul sent a party of his guards to beset David’s house in the night, that they might seize him and kill him; we have the story 1 Sam. 19:11. It was when his hostilities against David were newly begun, and he had but just before narrowly escaped Saul’s javelin. These first eruptions of Saul’s mal…
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