2 Samuel 23:7
But the man that shall touch them, must be defensed with yron, or with the shaft of a speare: and they shall be burnt with fire in the same place.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
6But the wicked shalbe euery one as thornes thrust away, because they can not be taken with handes.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:8Then the earth trembled and quaked: the foundations of the heauens mooued and shooke, because he was angrie.
Isaiah 27:4Anger is not in mee: who would set the briers and the thornes against me in battel? I would go through them, I would burne them together.
Matthew 13:42And shall cast them into a fornace of fire. There shalbe wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Luke 19:27Moreouer, those mine enemies, which would not that I should reigne ouer them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
2 Thessalonians 1:8In flaming fire, rendring vengeance vnto them, that doe not know God, and which obey not vnto the Gospel of our Lord Iesus Christ,
Hebrews 6:8But that which beareth thornes and briars, is reproued, and is neere vnto cursing, whose end is to be burned.
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 →