1 Kings 2:26-27 And to Abiathar the priest said the king, Get you to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death… In middle life — much more in old age — we may have many acquaintances, but we have few friends. "If," said an old man quaintly, "my acquaintances would fill a church, my real friends could go in the pulpit." Socrates used to keep two chairs only in his house: "One for myself, and another for a friend — when I find him!" How well then it is that there is a Friend "who sticketh closer than a brother" — a Guide and Comforter whom we cannot fail to find if we look for Him with the eyes of faith! (Quiver.) Parallel Verses KJV: And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted. |
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