Psalms 58:1
For the end. Destroy not: by David for a memorial, when Saul sent, and watched his house to kill him. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
In Context
2Deliver me from mine enemies, O God; 1 And ransom me from those that rise up against me. 1
Cross References
Numbers 11:16And the Lord said to Moses, Gather me seventy men from the elders of Israel, whom thou thyself knowest that they are the elders of the people, and their scribes; and thou shalt bring them to the tabernacle of witness, and they shall stand there with thee.
Deuteronomy 16:18Thou shalt make for thyself judges and officers in thy cities, which the Lord thy God gives thee in thy tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment:
2 Samuel 23:3The God of Israel says, 1 A watchman out of Israel spoke to me a parable: 1 I said among men, How will ye strengthen the fear of the anointed? 1
Psalms 57:1For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial. 1
Psalms 72:1A Psalm for Asaph. 1 How good is God to Israel, 1 To the upright in heart! 1
Psalms 82:6For they have taken counsel together with one consent: 1 They have made a confederacy against thee; 1
Matthew Henry on Psalms 58:1
It is the probable conjecture of some (Amyraldus particularly) that before Saul began to persecute David by force of arms, and raised the militia to seize him, he formed a process against him by course of law, upon which he was condemned unheard, and attainted as a traitor, by the great council, or supreme court of judicature, and then proclaimed "qui caput gerit lupinum—an outlawed wolf," whom any man might kill and no man might protect. The elders, in order to curry favour with Saul, having passed this bill of… Read the whole commentary →