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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

2 Samuel 14:9

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 bring guilt upon him; and yet most decently orders her phrase so as not to seem to blame or threaten the king. This sense seems best to agree with David's answer, which shew's that she desired some farther assurances of the king's care.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE INIQUITY BE ON ME ... - Compare the principle in Genesis 9:5; Numbers 35:30. The woman therefore says, if there is any such guilt in sparing my son, may it rest upon me and my house, not on David...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE WOMAN OF TEKOAH SAID UNTO THE KING, MY LORD, O KING, THE INIQUITY BE ON ME, AND ON MY FATHER'S HOUSE: AND THE KING AND HIS THRONE BE GUILTLESS._ The woman ... said ... O king, the iniquity b...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE INIQUITY _be_ ON ME] i.e. if the king is breaking the law of God, she is willing to bear the punishment: cp. Genesis 9:6....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ תֹּ֜אמֶר הָ אִשָּׁ֤ה הַ תְּקֹועִית֙ אֶל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • KJV Original Language Details

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE WISE WOMAN OF TEKOAH...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Samuel 14:9 woman H802 Tekoa H8621 said H559 (H8799) king H4428 lord H113 king H4428 iniquity H5771 fathers

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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