2 Samuel 14:1
Was towards — He desired to see him, but was ashamed to shew kindness to one whom God's law and his own conscience obliged him to punish; he wanted therefore a fair pretence, which therefore Joab gave him.... [ Continue Reading ]
Was towards — He desired to see him, but was ashamed to shew kindness to one whom God's law and his own conscience obliged him to punish; he wanted therefore a fair pretence, which therefore Joab gave him.... [ Continue Reading ]
Anoint — As they used to do when they were out of a mourning state.... [ Continue Reading ]
Widow — One of them who most need thy compassion, and whom thou art by God's law obliged in a singular manner to relieve.... [ Continue Reading ]
Be guiltless — If through thy forgetfulness or neglect of this my just cause, my adversaries prevail and destroy my son, my desire is, that God would not lay it to the king's charge, but rather to me and mine, so the king may be exempted thereby. Whereby she insinuates, that such an omission will br... [ Continue Reading ]
Remember — Remember the Lord, in whose presence thou hast made me this promise, and who will be a witness against thee, if thou breakest it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Wherefore then — If thou shouldst not permit the avengers of blood to molest me, or to destroy my son, who are but two persons; how unreasonable is it that thou shouldest proceed in thy endeavours to avenge Amnon's blood upon Absalom, whose death would be grievous to the whole commonwealth of Israel... [ Continue Reading ]
We — We shall certainly die, both thou, O king, who art therefore obliged to take care of thy successor, Absalom; and Absalom, who, if he do not die by the hand of justice, must shortly die by the necessity of nature: and Amnon too must have died in the common way of all flesh, if Absalom had not cu... [ Continue Reading ]
The people — The truth is, I was even forced to this bold address to thee by the disposition of thy people, who are discontented at Absalom's perpetual banishment, lest, if Absalom by his father — in — law's assistance invade the land, the people who have a great kindness for him, and think he is ve... [ Continue Reading ]
Hear — For I know the king is so wise and just, that I assure myself of audience and acceptation. Deliver — To grant my request concerning my son, and consequently the peoples petition concerning Absalom. My son — Implying that her life was bound up in the life of her son, and that she could not out... [ Continue Reading ]
Angel — In wisdom, and justice, and goodness. Therefore — Because thou art so wise and gracious to those who in strict justice deserve punishment, God will own and stand by thee in this thy act of grace: or God will prosper thee in thy enterprizes.... [ Continue Reading ]
Of Joab — Hast thou not said and done this by Joab's direction. Said — It is even so, thou hast discovered the truth. These words — As to the substance of them, but not as to all the expressions; for these were to be varied as the king's answer gave occasion.... [ Continue Reading ]
To fetch — That is, to propose his, and the peoples desire of Absalom's restitution in this parabolical manner. In the earth — Or, in this land, in all thy kingdom; all the counsels and devices of thy subjects.... [ Continue Reading ]
Fulfilled — But it seems David had no power to dispense with God's laws, nor to spare any whom God appointed him to destroy: for the laws of God bound the kings and rulers, as well as the people of Israel. How justly did God make this man, whom he had so sinfully spared, a scourge to him?... [ Continue Reading ]
Let him turn — Lest whilst be shewed some mercy to Absalom, he should seem to approve of his sin. Likewise by this means Absalom might be drawn to a more thorough humiliation and repentance.... [ Continue Reading ]
Beauty — This is noted as the occasion of his pride, and of the people's affection to him.... [ Continue Reading ]
Weighed — Others understand this not of the weight, but of the price of his hair.... [ Continue Reading ]
Sons — All which died not long after they were born, as may be gathered from 2 Samuel 18:18, where it is said, that Absalom had no son.... [ Continue Reading ]
Kill me — For it is better for me to die, than to want the sight and favour of my dear father. Thus he insinuates himself into his father's affections, by pretending such respect and love to him It seems that by this time Absalom having so far recovered his father's favour, began to grow upon him, a... [ Continue Reading ]
Kissed — Did the bowels of a father prevail to reconcile him to an impenitent son? And shall penitent sinners question the compassion of him who is the Father of mercy? If Ephraim bemoan himself, God soon bemoans him, with all the expressions of fatherly tenderness. He is a dear son, a pleasant chil... [ Continue Reading ]