Psalm 12:2

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Summary

Psalm 12:2

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

Flattering

A double heart

1 Chronicles 12:33

General references

Bible References

Flattering

There is nothing reliable in what they say;
Their inward part is destruction itself.
Their throat is an open grave;
They flatter with their tongue.

Do not drag me away with the wicked

And with those who work iniquity,
Who speak peace with their neighbors,
While evil is in their hearts.

They have counseled only to thrust him down from his high position;
They delight in falsehood;
They bless with their mouth,
But inwardly they curse.

Selah.

He who goes about as a slanderer reveals secrets,
Therefore do not associate with

a gossip.

A man who flatters his neighbor
Is spreading a net for his steps.

For there will no longer be any

false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel.

For such men are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

For we never came with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness—

A double heart

Of Zebulun, there were 50,000 who went out in the army, who could draw up in battle formation with all kinds of weapons of war and helped David with an undivided heart.

General references

Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than to give her to another man; stay with me.”

So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength is and how you may be bound to afflict you.”

Why do You make me see iniquity,
And cause me to look on wickedness?
Yes, destruction and violence are before me;

Strife exists and contention arises.

The people kept crying out, “The voice of a god and not of a man!”