Psalms 109:6
Set over him a wicked man; let an accuser stand at his right hand.
BSB
ASV
Set thou a wicked man over him; And let an adversary stand at his right hand.
KJV
Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
Set a sinner over him. Since I prayed for them upon the cross, and they saw my wounds — I gave them room for repentance and they do not repent, and they refuse to have me as king — let them have the devil as king. They will not have Jesus as king: let them have Barabbas as king, Barabbas, which is interpreted "son of the father," that is, of the devil. This Barabbas, who was he? A seditious man and a robber.
Set thou a wicked man over him. What worse punishment could a man have? The proud man cannot endure the proud, nor the oppressor brook the rule of another like himself. The righteous in their patience find the rule of the wicked a sore bondage; but those who are full of resentful passions, and haughty aspirations, are slaves indeed when men of their own class have the whip hand of them. For Herod to be ruled by another Herod would be wretchedness enough, and yet what retribution could be more just?
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Matthew 5:25Reconcile quickly with your adversary, while you are still on the way to court. Otherwise, he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and…
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Make every effort to reconcile with your adversary while you are on your way to the magistrate. Otherwise, he may drag you off to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to…
do not bring hastily to court. Otherwise, what will you do in the end when your neighbor puts you to shame?
But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
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John 13:27And when Judas had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to Judas, “What you are about to do, do quickly.”
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Then Satan entered Judas Iscariot, who was one of the Twelve.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Zechariah 3:1Then the angel showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, with Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
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Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.
Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
