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- Chapter 59
- Verse 2
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Gill's Exposition
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity,.... See Gill on Psa 6:8;
and save me from bloody men; such as Saul sent to kill David, as appears from the title of the psalm; and such as were concerned in…
Barnes' Notes
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity - The workers of iniquity here referred to were Saul and those whom he employed to carry out his murderous purpose - the people that had been sent to slay him.…
The title of this psalm acquaints us particularly with the occasion on which it was penned; it was when Saul sent a party of his guards to beset David's house in the night, that they might seize him…
Cambridge Bible
from bloody men Better, from bloodthirsty men (Psa 5:6; Psa 55:23; Psa 139:19; Pro 29:10).
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