2 Samuel 23:6

But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.

Majority Standard Bible

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

5Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?

7The man who touches them must be armed with iron or with the shaft of a spear. The fire burns them to ashes in the place where they lie.”

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Cross References

Genesis 3:18Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

1 Samuel 2:12Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD

2 Samuel 20:1Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted: “We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!”

Isaiah 33:12The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.

Micah 7:4The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.

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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