2 Samuel 17:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:

Weary

2 Samuel 16:14

Deuteronomy 25:18

I will smite

General references

Psalm 118:13

Bible References

Weary

The king and all the people who were with him arrived [at the Jordan River] weary, and he refreshed himself there.

how he met you along the road and attacked all the stragglers at your rear when you were tired and weary; and he did not fear God.

I will smite

Now the king of Aram (Syria) had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, “Do not fight with [anyone, either] small or great, but with [Ahab] the king of Israel alone.”

“Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd,
And against the Man, My Associate,”
Declares the Lord of hosts.
“Strike the Shepherd so that the sheep [of the flock] may be scattered;
And I will turn My hand and stretch it out against the little ones [of the flock].

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This [man] is the heir; come on, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.’

Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away because of Me this night [disillusioned about Me, confused, and some even ashamed of Me], for it is written [in the Scriptures], ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

Nor do you understand that it is expedient and politically advantageous for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”

Then Jesus, knowing all that was about to happen to Him, went to them and asked, “Whom do you want?”

General references

You [my enemy] pushed me violently so that I was falling,
But the Lord helped me.