Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.
David celebrates a signal deliverance: when he fled to King Achish of Gath, whom he reckoned his deadliest enemy after Saul, he feigned madness to escape certain death. That God granted him escape contrary to all expectation shows a memorable instance of His favor, fit for the instruction of the whole Church.
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Commenting on Psalm 34:1-22
Many are the afflictions of the righteous. Thus are they made like Jesus their covenant Head. Scripture does not flatter us like the story books with the idea that goodness will secure us from trouble; on the contrary, we are again and again warned to expect tribulation while we are in this body.
A king and warrior, with his head full of cares and hands full of business, did not think it beneath him to gather the children and teach them the fear of the Lord from his own hard experience. The tender branches are more easily bent than the stubborn trees; children will be tractable when their elders refuse instruction.
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Commenting on Psalm 34:11-22