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Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hid from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against [me].
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The Soldier's Shrewd Insight
Commentators highlight the soldier's remarkable wisdom. He correctly assessed that King David would inevitably discover the truth, stating, "there is no matter hid from the king." More shrewdly, he knew that the unscrupulous Joab, who was tempting him, would be the first to turn against him to save his own reputation.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The man gives a remarkable incidental testimony to David’s sagacity and insight (Compare to 2 Samuel 14:19), and to Joab’s known unscru…
19th Century
Anglican
Against my own life. —The English, like the Vulgate, here follows the margin of the Hebrew; the Septuagint, in most manuscripts, f…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against my own life Or "soul"; he should no…
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