2 SAMUEL CHAPTER 16 Ziba, by presents and false suggestions, obtaineth of David his master's inheritance, 2 SAMUEL 16:1. Shimei revileth and curseth David, who restraineth Abishai from revenging it, 2 SAMUEL 16:5. Absalom cometh with Ahithophel to Jerusalem; lieth with his father's concubines in the... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE KING'S HOUSEHOLD TO RIDE ON; for the king and his wives and children were all on foot; not that he had not or could not procure asses for them at Jerusalem, but because he chose it as best becoming that state of penitence and humiliation in which they were.... [ Continue Reading ]
Which though it might seem a very unlikely thing, yet such vain expectations do often get into the minds of men; nor was it impossible, that when David's family was thus divided, and one part engaged against another, they might destroy themselves by mutual wounds; and the people being tired out with... [ Continue Reading ]
THINE ARE ALL THAT PERTAINED UNTO MEPHIBOSHETH; a rash sentence, and unrighteous, to condemn a man unheard, upon the single testimony of his accuser and servant. But David's mind was both clouded by the deep sense of his calamity, and biassed by Ziba's great and seasonable kindness, And he might thi... [ Continue Reading ]
BAHURIM; a city in Benjamin, 2 SAMUEL 3:16, 2 SAMUEL 19:16; i.e. to the territory of it, for to the city he came not till 2 SAMUEL 16:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE CAST STONES; not so much to hurt them, as to show his contempt of them. ALL THE PEOPLE WERE ON HIS RIGHT HAND AND ON HIS LEFT; which is noted to show the prodigious madness of the man; though rage (which is truly said to be a short madness) and the height of malice hath oft transported men to the... [ Continue Reading ]
Or rather, _go out_, as the word properly signifies. Be gone out of thy kingdom, as thou deservest.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THE BLOOD OF THE HOUSE OF SAUL; either, 1. The blood of Abner and Ish-bosheth; which he maliciously imputes to David, as if they had been killed by David's contrivance; especially the former, because David did only give Joab hard words, as in policy he was obliged to do; but instead of punishin... [ Continue Reading ]
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WHAT HAVE I TO DO WITH YOU? to wit, in this matter I ask not your advice, nor will I follow it; nor do I desire you should at all concern yourselves in it, but wholly leave it to me, to do what I think fit. BECAUSE THE LORD HATH SAID UNTO HIM; not that God commanded it by his word, for that severely... [ Continue Reading ]
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IT MAY BE; he speaks doubtfully, because he was conscious that by his sins he had forfeited all his claim to God's promises. THE LORD WILL LOOK ON MINE AFFLICTION with an eye of commiseration.... [ Continue Reading ]
Not that he could reach him or hurt him with it; but only as an expression of contempt. And the like is to be thought concerning the stones, wherewith he could not think to reach David, when he was encamped with his men on every side.... [ Continue Reading ]
CAME to the city of Bahurim, 2 SAMUEL 16:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
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To wit, Absalom, whom he pretends to own for his king and liege lord.... [ Continue Reading ]
IS THIS THY KINDNESS TO THY FRIEND? doth this action answer that profession of greatest friendship which thou hast hitherto made to him? Dost thou thus requite his favour and true friendship to thee? He speaks thus only to try him. And he saith, _thy friend_, by way of refection on David; as one who... [ Continue Reading ]
Though as a private person I owed and paid friendship to David whilst he was king; yet I must make all my obligations give place to the authority of God, who putteth down and setteth up kings at this pleasure; and to the common sense and decree of the whole body of the nation. But Hushai expresseth... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou art his son, and heir, and successor, and now in his place and stead; whereby my friendship which was due to him is devolved upon thee by right of inheritance; and I reckon that my friendship is not wholly alienated from him, when it is transferred upon one that came out of his bowels.... [ Continue Reading ]
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This counsel he gave, partly to revenge the injury done to Bath-sheba, who was the daughter of Eliam, 2 SAMUEL 11:3 who was THE SON OF AHITHOPHEL, 2 SAMUEL 23:34; and principally for his own and the people's safety, that the breach between David and Absalom might be made wide and irreparable by so v... [ Continue Reading ]
UPON THE TOP OF THE HOUSE, to wit, of the king's palace, the very place from whence David had spied and gazed upon Bath-sheba, 2 SAMUEL 11:2. So that his sin was legible in the very place of his punishment. UNTO HIS FATHER'S CONCUBINES, i.e. to one or some of them; and by so doing did further make c... [ Continue Reading ]
WAS AS IF A MAN HAD INQUIRED AT THE ORACLE OF GOD; it was received by the people with equal authority and veneration, and was usually attended with as certain success; which is mentioned as the reason why a counsel which had so ill a face, should meet with such general approbation. WITH DAVID; to wh... [ Continue Reading ]