False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
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Gill's Exposition
False witnesses did rise up,.... Against David, saying he sought the hurt of Saul, Sa1 24:9, as did against David's antitype, the Lord Jesus Christ, Mat 26:59; and against his apostles, Act 24:5; and…
Barnes' Notes
False witnesses did rise up - Margin, “witnesses of wrong.” The Hebrew is, “witnesses of “violence,”” חמס châmâs. That is, they were persons who, in what they said of me, were guilty of injustice…
Two very wicked things David here lays to the charge of his enemies, to make good his appeal to God against them - perjury and ingratitude.
I. Perjury, Psa 35:11. When Saul would have David attainted…
The causelessness of the Psalmist's persecution and the ingratitude of his persecutors are urged as reasons for God's interference on his behalf.
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