2 Samuel 16:10
And the king said: What have I to do with you, ye sons of Sarvia? Let him alone and let him curse: for the Lord hath bid him curse David: and who is he that shall dare say, why hath he done so?
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Genesis 50:20You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.
2 Samuel 3:39But I as yet am tender, though anointed king. And these men the sons of Sarvia are too hard for me: the Lord reward him that doth evil according to his wickedness.
2 Samuel 19:23And the king said to Semei: Thou shalt not die. And he swore unto him.
1 Kings 22:21And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said: I will deceive him. And the Lord said to him: By what means?
Job 9:12If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so?
Lamentations 3:37Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not?
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 16:6-15
David Cursed by Shimei. ( b. c. 1023.) 5 And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came. 6 And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. 7 And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial: 8 The Lord hath returned upon thee all… Read the whole commentary →