But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away,
because they can’t be taken with the hand.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Samuel 23:6 in context
2 Samuel 23:3–9
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The God of Israel said,
the Rock of Israel spoke to me,
‘One who rules over men righteously,
who rules in the fear of God,
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shall be as the light of the morning when the sun rises,
a morning without clouds,
when the tender grass springs out of the earth,
through clear shining after rain.’
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Isn’t my house so with God?
Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant,
ordered in all things, and sure,
for it is all my salvation and all my desire.
Won’t he make it grow?
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But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away,
because they can’t be taken with the hand.
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The man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear.
They will be utterly burned with fire in their place.”
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These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb Basshebeth, a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; he was called Adino the Eznite, who killed eight hundred at one time.
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After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David when they defied the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel had gone away.
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