He cast stones; not so much to hurt them, as to show his contempt of them. All the people were on his right hand and on his left; which is noted to show the prodigious madness of the man; though rage (which is truly said to be a short madness) and the height of malice hath oft transported men to the most hazardous and desperate speeches and actions.
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2 Samuel 16:6
6 And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.