2 Samuel 14:17
So thy maidservant said, Pray let the word of my lord the king be comforting,—for, as the messenger of God, so is my lord the king, in hearing the good and the bad, Yahweh thy God, then, be with thee.
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1 Samuel 29:9Then answered Achish, and said unto David, I acknowledge that, pleasing, thou art in mine eyes, as a messenger of God,—notwithstanding, the princes of the Philistines, have said, He shall not go up with us, into the battle.
2 Samuel 19:27And he hath slandered thy servant, unto my lord the king,—but, my lord the king, is as a messenger of God, do therefore what is good in thine own eyes.
1 Kings 3:9Wilt thou, then, give unto thy servant, a heart that hearkeneth, to judge thy people, to discern between good and bad,—for who is able to judge this thine honoured people?
Job 6:30Is there, in my tongue, perversity? Or can, my sense, not discern, engulfing ruin?
Proverbs 29:5A man who flattereth his neighbour, spreadeth, a net, over his steps.
Hebrews 5:14But, to such as are mature, pertaineth, the strong food, to them who, by reason of habit, have their organs of perception well trained for discriminating both good and evil.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 14:2-21
Joab's Stratagem in Absalom's Favour; The Art of Joab. ( b. c. 1029.) 1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom. 2 And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead: 3 And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth. 4 And when the woman… Read the whole commentary →