* would to God.
   The very words and conduct of a sly, hypocritical demagogue.

  2Sa 15:4  1Ki 20:11  Ps 10:3  Ro 1:30,31 
 * And he said.
   Rather, "and I would say to Abimelech," as the LXX. renders;
   for as Dr. Wall observes, this was probably not said in the
   presence of Abimelech; but at an intemperate feast, in his
   absence, when he boasted he would challenge him.

 * Increase thine army.
  2Sa 2:14-17  2Ki 14:8  18:23  Isa 36:8,9