Psalm 3:2 When a giant falls, the land shakes

” יְהֹוָה מָה רַבּוּ צָרָי רַבִּים קָמִים עָלָי”

“O Lord, how many have my adversaries become! Great men rise up against me.”

It is not easy to withstand when many people are opposing you, it is much harder, when not only the ‘stupid mob’ is against you, but among them there are also ‘great men’.

King David was opposed by great people of figure as well as sages in wisdom: Sons of Raffa, king Saul, Doeg the Edomi and others.

Even great people can be wrong and make mistakes, when that is the case, the fall is much harder. Whether because they are people with lots of might and can cause bigger harm, sometimes the fact of being denied and accused by great people, breaks one’s confidence, mixes one’s thoughts about what is right and what is wrong.

The major unfortunate event King David had, thus blamed after: “Begone, begone, you man of blood, and you wicked man.” (Shmuel 2, 16),  was after his sin of sending Urya to die in the war in order to have Bat Sheva.
In the next verses, we will see David’s way of praying in such occasion.