2 Samuel 23:6
But transgressors shall all of them be plucked up as thorns: which are not taken away with hands.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 3:18Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou eat the herbs of the earth.
1 Samuel 2:12Now the sons of Heli were children of Belial, not knowing the Lord,
2 Samuel 20:1And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Seba, the son of Bochri, a man of Jemini: and he sounded the trumpet, and said: We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Isai: return to thy dwellings, O Israel.
Isaiah 33:12And the people shall be as ashes after a fire, as a bundle of thorns they shall be burnt with fire.
Micah 7:4He that is best among them, is as a brier: and he that is righteous, as the thorn of the hedge. The day of thy inspection, thy visitation cometh: now shall be their destruction.
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 →