Psalms 55:13

2 Samuel 15:12; 2 Samuel 16:23; Jeremiah 9:4; John 19:13; Luke 22:21; Luke 22:47; Luke 22:48; Micah 7:5; Mark 14:44; Mark 14:45; Matthew 26:47-50

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But it was thou, a man mine equal - Margin, “a man according to my rank.” Septuagint, ἰσόψυχε isopsuche , equal-souled, like-souled, “seco...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

But [it was] thou, a man mine (k) equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. (k) Who was not only joined to me in friendship and counsel in worldly mat...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LV. A Prayer for Deliverance from Treacherous Foes. Psalms 55:1-11 . The Psalmist tells God of his disquiet and terror. His desire to flee from J...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

a man . a mortal. Hebrew. 'enosh. App-14. mine equal . as mine equal: i.e. esteemed by David as such; refers to Ahithophel. My guide: or coun...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For it was not an enemy, &c.— Among other persons who joined in this conspiracy against David, there was one from whom he expected a quite diff...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. But it was thou, a man mine equal - literally, 'a man according to my ran...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The author of this Ps. can hardly be David, for he speaks as a citizen of a distracted city rather than as its king, and the friend of whom he compla...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Guide.. acquaintance] RV 'companion.. familiar friend.'
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

But it was... — Better, But thou art a man of my own standing. The word erek is used ( Exodus 40:23 ) of the row of loaves constituting the she...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 55:1-23 THE situation of the psalmist has a general correspondence with that of David in the period of Absalom's rebellion, and the identif...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Friends May Forsake, but God Abideth Psalms 55:12-23 The streets and open spaces of the city were filled with conspirators. Violence, strife, d...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is the outcry of a man of faith in sore peril. The emotional nature is moved to its very center, and tides of deep feeling surge through his sou...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

We must of necessity drop David's history in these verses, to attend to an infinitely greater; for surely what is here said by the Spirit of Christ,...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But [it was] thou ,.... The Targum is, "but thou Ahithophel"; of whom the words are literally to be understood, and so they are in the Talmud u; and...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

But [it was] thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. Ver. 13. But it was thou, a man mine equal ] Heb. according to my rank, my c...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

It was not an enemy Not an open and professed enemy, or, not an old and inveterate enemy, (as appears from the following description to be his mean...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Prophetic Imprecations. 9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Mine equal; not in power and dignity, which could not be, but in reputation for his deep wisdom and excellent conduct, and the great influence whic...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

He Bewails The Fact That He Has Been Betrayed By A Comrade-In-Arms ( Psalms 55:12-14 ). The description of the city has prepared the way for the s...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the Chief Musician on Neginoth .” See introduction to Psalms 54 “ Maschil ,” an instruction. Hengstenberg: “Th...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. It needed the chief musician to sing such a Psalm as this; it is so full of sorrow, and...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 55:6 . Oh that I had wings like a dove, to outfly the hawks which seek my life. The Latin reads, Who will give me wings like a dove? But th...
The Biblical Illustrator

Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not Thyself from my supplication. The compassionable, the commendable, and the censurable in life I. The...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THIS psalm has been assigned to Jeremiah by Hitzig, and by others to an unknown writer of the seventh century b.c. But no solid g...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Complaint of False Friends. To the chief musician on Neginoth, to be rendered with the accompaniment of stringed instruments in public worship,...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

But it was thou, a man mine equal, whom David esteemed of the same rank with himself, my guide and mine acquaintance, rather, "my companion and my...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Equal — Not in power, but in reputation, for wisdom, and influence upon my people. Guide — Whose counsel I highly prized, and constantly followed....

¹³ But it was thou, a man mine equal,b my guide, and mine acquaintance.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 55:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 55:13