2 Samuel 16:10
“What's that got to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah?” the king replied. “If he's cursing me because the Lord told him to, then who can question what he's doing?”
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Genesis 50:20While you planned bad things for me, God planned it for good so that in the end many lives could be saved.
2 Samuel 3:39I am weak right now, even though I'm anointed as king and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too powerful for me. But may the Lord repay the evil man according to the evil he has done.”
2 Samuel 19:23David turned to Shimei and swore an oath to him, “You're not going to die.”
1 Kings 22:21Finally a spirit came and approached the Lord and said, ‘I will trick him.’
Job 9:12If he takes away, who can prevent him? Who is going to ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
Lamentations 3:37Who spoke and it came into existence? Wasn't it the Lord who commanded it?
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 →