We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
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Gill's Exposition
Let death seize upon them,.... Ahithophel and his accomplices, Judas and the men with him; as a mighty man, as the king of terrors, and shake them to pieces. Or, "let him exact upon them" (a); as a…
Barnes' Notes
We took sweet counsel together - Margin, “who sweetened counsel.” Literally, “We sweetened counsel together;” that is, We consulted together; we opened our minds and plans to each other; in other…
David here complains of his enemies, whose wicked plots had brought him, though not to his faith's end, yet to his wits' end, and prays against them by the spirit of prophecy. Observe here,
I. The…
Cambridge Bible
We were wont to take sweet counsel together,
To walk in the house of God with the throng.
Ours was an habitual intimacy of the closest and most sacred kind, in confidential intercourse in private,…