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The king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, Curse David; who then shall say, Why have you done so?
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Seeing God's Hand in Hardship
Commentators agree that David's primary response is to see God's sovereign hand at work. He looks past the human source of the curse, Shimei, and recognizes the event as divinely permitted for his own correction. As John Gill explains, this doesn't mean God commanded Shimei to sin, but that God, in His providence, allowed the situation to unfold to accomplish His purposes in David's life.
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2 Samuel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
What have I to do... — Compare Matthew 8:29; John 2:4; and the similar complaint about the sons of Zeruiah in [Reference…
19th Century
Anglican
So let him curse. — This translation follows the margin of the Hebrew, as the Septuagint and Vulgate also do. David, thro…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the king said, what have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah ? &c.] It seems as…
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David bore Shimei's curses much better than Ziba's flatteries; by these he was led to make a wrong judgment about another, by those to make a right…
