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43Thou hast also turned{H8686)} the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand{H8689)} in the battle.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies! …
Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai. …
And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. …
Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 38-52)In these verses we have, I. A very melancholy complaint of the present deplorable state of David’s family, which the psalmist thinks hard to be reconciled to the covenant God made with David. “Thou saidst thou wouldst not take away thy lovingkindness, but thou hast cast off .” Sometimes, it is no easy thing to reconcile God’s providences with his promises, and yet we are sure they are reconcilable…
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