Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that the LORD has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before the LORD; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to the LORD’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 19. Sacrifice, that he may be appeased; (Jonathan. Vatab.) or rather, I am willing to fall a victim, ( Menochius.) and pray that thy sacrifice may be acceptable, and all thy designs against me succeed. Psalms 19:4.—They are. The opposition of this sentence to the preceding seems to require “let them be,” and so forth What in effect did not those deserve who wished to make David adore false gods? Calmet.—Lord in the land of Israel.—Gods. They said so, at least by their actions. Menochius.—All other countries were in a manner abandoned to idol-worship, so that a person could not dwell in them, without the most imminent danger. See 2 Kennicott. 14:16. Psalms 83:12. Calmet.