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Gill's Exposition
They rewarded me evil for good,.... For the good David did in killing Goliath, and slaying his ten thousands of the Philistines, and thereby saving his king and country, Saul and his courtiers envied…
Barnes' Notes
They rewarded me evil for good - They recompensed, or returned evil instead of good. The manner in which they did it he states in the following verses. To the spoiling of my soul - Margin,…
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…
Cambridge Bible
They rewarded&c. Better, as R.V., they reward. As in the preceding verse he speaks of what is still going on. His enemies are guilty of the basest ingratitude. Cp. Psa 38:20; Psa 109:5; Pro 17:13.…
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