It is evident that “the abyss” here refers to the place in which Christ Jesus spent part of three days and from which place his Father resurrected him. (Compare Ps 71:19, 20; Mt 12:40.)

After Absalom’s revolt failed, the men of Judah came to Gilgal to conduct David across the Jordan.​—2Sa 19:15, 40.

Father of the Benjamite Shimei who called down evil upon David.​—2Sa 16:5; 19:16, 18; 1Ki 2:8.

The meditations of the heart should be focused on beneficial things, on Jehovah’s splendor and activities, on things pleasing to him (Ps 19:14; 49:3; 77:12; 143:5; Php 4:8), and not on the devices of the wicked.​—Pr 24:1, 2.

Gesenius’s Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon (translated by S. Tregelles, 1901, p. 215) says of ha·ghahʹ: “Prop[erly] to speak with oneself, murmuring and in a low voice, as is often done by those who are musing.”​—Compare Ps 35:28; 37:30; 71:24; Isa 8:19; 33:18.

2Sa 19:31, 32

They cooperated with the gatekeeper. (2Sa 18:24, 26)

All speech should result in praise to Him. (Ps 34:1; 51:15; 71:8; 145:21)

It is especially important to guard one’s mouth when before the wicked, because a slight deviation from what God’s wisdom directs his servant to say can bring reproach on God’s name and may cause that one’s death. (Ps 39:1)

He does not declare sinful persons righteous on their own merit, thereby overlooking or condoning sin. (Ps 143:1, 2)

They choose to serve under his sovereignty rather than try to be independent​—this because of their knowledge of him and of his love, justice, and wisdom, which they realize far surpasses their own. (Ps 84:10, 11)

A town in Gilead and home of David’s friend Barzillai. (2Sa 17:27-29; 19:31, 32)

In other instances it refers to individuals as resisters of other men. (1Sa 29:4; 2Sa 19:21, 22; 1Ki 5:4; 11:14, 23, 25)

Fellow members of the same tribe in Israel enjoyed a brotherly relationship (2Sa 19:12, 13; Nu 8:26), and in a still larger sense the entire nation of Israel were brothers, offspring, as they were, of one common father Jacob, and they were united in worship of the same God, Jehovah. (Ex 2:11; De 15:12; Mt 5:47; Ac 3:17, 22; 7:23; Ro 9:3)

19:24 1:266

84:3 2:1046