2Sa 12:11, 16:21-22, 20:3, Rom 12:2 | TSK | STEP | I will raise. I will take.That is, in the course of my providence I will permit this to be done. Such phrases in Scripture do not mean that God either does or can do evil himself; but only that he permits such evil to be done as he foresaw would be done, and which, had he pleased, he might have prevented.

2 Samuel 12:11

I will raise.

I will take.That is, in the course of my providence I will permit this to be done. Such phrases in Scripture do not mean that God either does or can do evil himself; but only that he permits such evil to be done as he foresaw would be done, and which, had he pleased, he might have prevented.

16:21,22; De 28:30; Eze 14:9; 20:25,26; Ho 4:13,14

2 Samuel 16:21-22

Go in.

Ge 6:4; 38:16

unto thy.

12:11; 15:16; 20:3; Ge 35:22; Le 18:8; 20:11; 1Ki 2:17,22; 1Co 5:1

abhorred.

thy father.

then shall.

the hands.

the top.

went in.

12:11,12; 15:16; 20:3; Nu 25:6; Isa 3:9; Jer 3:3; 8:12; Eze 24:7

Php 3:19

2 Samuel 20:3

ten women.

15:16; 16:21,22

and put.The confinement and retired maintenance of these women was the only measure which in justice and prudence could be adopted. In China, when an emperor dies, all his women are removed to an edifice called the palace of chastity, situated within the palace, in which they are shut up for the remainder of their lives.

ward. Heb. an house of ward.

Ge 40:3

shut. Heb. bound. living in widowhood. Heb. in widowhoodof life.

Romans 12:2

be not.

Ex 23:2; Le 18:29,30; De 18:9-14; Joh 7:7; 14:30; 15:19; 17:14

1Co 3:19; 2Co 4:4; 6:14-17; Ga 1:4; Eph 2:2; 4:17-20; Jas 1:27; 4:4

1Pe 1:14,18; 4:2; 2Pe 1:4; 2:20; 1Jo 2:15-17; 3:13; 4:4,5; 5:19

Re 12:9; 13:8

be ye.

13:14; Ps 51:10; Eze 18:31; 36:26; 2Co 5:17; Eph 1:18; 4:22-24

Col 1:21,22; 3:10; Tit 3:5

prove.

1; Ps 34:8; Eph 5:10,17; 1Pe 2:3

good.

1; 7:12,14,22; Ps 19:7-11; 119:47,48,72,97,103,128,174; Pr 3:1-4

Pr 3:13-18; Ga 5:22-23; Eph 5:9; Col 4:12; 1Th 4:3; 2Ti 3:16,17