2 Samuel 23:6

But [the sons] of Belial [are] all of them as thorns thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with hands;

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:

In Context

5Although my house be not so before God, Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in every way and sure; For [this is] all my salvation, and every desire, Although he make [it] not to grow.

7And the man that will touch them provideth himself with iron and the staff of a spear; And they shall be utterly burned with fire in [their] place.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:18and thorns and thistles shall it yield thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.

1 Samuel 2:12Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not Jehovah.

2 Samuel 20:1And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite; and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, Israel.

Isaiah 33:12And the peoples shall be [as] burnings of lime, [as] thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

Micah 7:4The best of them is as a briar; the most upright, [worse] than a thorn-fence. The day of thy watchmen, thy visitation is come; now shall be their perplexity.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 23:2-8

David's Last Words. ( b. c. 1015.) 1 Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, 2 The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue. 3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. 4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the… Read the whole commentary →

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