![]() The same with Jeremiah to Zedekiah, or John the Baptist to Herod, or Jesus to the Pharisees. This is why Elijah was such a thorn in the side of Ahab and Jezebel. The obedience of the godly is a perpetual sting in the heart of the disobedient, for the insolent see an outside manifestation of their own inner conscience in the lives of the righteous. Those who knowingly wander from God’s Word are very often the foremost at casting scorn and contempt upon those who keep it. Indeed, the pattern of history supports such an interpretation. The most likely answer would seem to be the insolent wanderers themselves. Yet if the psalmist has kept God’s law, what scorn and contempt is he facing? Having remembered that God rightly rebukes the insolent ones who bring the LORD’s curse upon themselves by wandering from His commandments, the psalmist now pleads for a different, kinder treatment from the LORD, for he has kept God’s testimonies rather than wandering from them. The child also that is born unto thee shall surely die which would be a visible testimony of God's displeasure at his sin, to all men that should hear of it, and know it and being taken away in such a manner would be a great affliction to him, and the more as his affections were much towards the child, as appears by what follows or otherwise the removal of it might have been considered as a mercy, since its life would have kept up the remembrance of the sin, and have been a standing reproach to him.This verse seems to be a natural follow-up to the previous one. Thou hast given great reason to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme to insult over Israel, and the God of Israel, and to magnify their own idols on account of the advantage they got when Uriah and other Israelites were slain and to speak ill of God as a respecter of persons, who had cast off Saul and his family from the kingdom, and yet established David in it, guilty of crimes the other was not and of the word, ways, and worship of God, and of the true religion, as all hypocrisy and deceit, when men that made such pretensions to it were guilty of such atrocious crimes wherefore to let such see and know that the Lord did not approve of and countenance such actions, but abhorred and resented them: This complicated wickedness, adultery with Bathsheba, and the murder of her husband, and occasioning the death of others: Concordances: - Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery Afflictions and Adversities Blasphemy Children David Minister, Christian Nathan Repentance Sin Scofield Reference Index - Judgments Thompson Chain Reference - Bringing Reproach David Inconsistency Religion, True-False Reproach The Topic Concordance - Blasphemy Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflictions Blasphemy ĭictionaries: - American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Parable Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Bathsheba David Nathan Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Blasphemy Kill, Killing Easton Bible Dictionary - David Fausset Bible Dictionary - Blasphemy Fly Nathan Holman Bible Dictionary - Blasphemy David Intercession King, Kingship Parables Samuel, Books of Scorn, Scornful Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ammon, Ammonites Nathan Samuel, Books of Sin Morrish Bible Dictionary - Nathan Uriah The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Nathan People's Dictionary of the Bible - David Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Nathan Įncyclopedias: - Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bath-Sheba Blasphemy How Nathan (1) Samuel, Books of Text of the Old Testament Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Allegory The Jewish Encyclopedia - Judge
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