“This is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 11. I will raise, and so forth All these evils, inasmuch as they were punishments, came upon Daivd by a just judgment of God, for his sin; and therefore God says, I will raise, and so forth But inas much as they were sins, on the part of Absalom and his associates, God was not the author of them, but only permitted them. Challoner.—God permitted the wicked prince to succeed for some time, that he might punish David. Calmet.—Neighbour, most dearly beloved. To be treated ill by such a one, is doubly severe. Psalms 54:15. Menochius.