The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 3:1

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Lord, how are they increased that trouble me: rather, Lord. how numerous are they that trouble me! We arc told, in the Book of Samuel, that "the conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually with Absalom (2 Samuel 15:12), and again, "Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him" (2 Samuel 16:15).

Ahithophel proposed to attack David with twelve thousand men only (2 Samuel 17:1), but the actual number which went against him must have been far larger, for some twenty thousand men, chiefly, no doubt, Absalom's partisans, fell in the battle (2 Samuel 18:7).

Many are they that rise up against me; i.e. "that rebel against me, and rise up in arras to make war upon me" (comp. Psalms 18:48; Psalms 44:5; Psalms 59:1, etc.).

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