Then I could bear it.
Nor is it one who hates me who has exalted himself against me;
Then I could hide from him.
13 But it was you, a man my equal,
My companion and my acquaintance.
14 We took sweet counsel together,
And walked to the house of God in the throng." vv.12-14
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It's generally easy to get away from an enemy but not so much when your friend becomes that enemy. This psalm seems to relate to David and Ahithophel. Ahithophel was Daivd's counselor who advised Absalom of how to obliborate David infant of all Israel by sleeping with David's concubines on the roof of the palace and thus to overthrow David as king and therefore help make Absalom king over Israel (Read 2 Samuel 15 & 16). Ahithophel was even called the king's companion in 1 Chronicles 27, how sad and hurtful that must have been for David, especially at this point in his life with all else that was going on. So we see a type of Christ here in as Judas was to Jesus, a close companion who betrayed Him. "Reproaches from those who have been intimate with us, and trusted by us, cut us to the quick; and they are usually so well acquainted with our peculiar weaknesses that they know how to touch us where we are most sensitive, and to speak so as to do us most damage...None are such real enemies as false friends" (Charles Spurgeon). When have you been hurt by a friend so dear? Have you ever been that treacherous friend that you now regret? David turns to rejoicing in God and praising that God will never be this type of friend. Men will fail us, but God never will. How can you rest in that?
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