2 Samuel 14:8-17

2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 Samuel 14:8 Perhaps David already suspects that Joab is involved in the woman’s coming to him, so he deliberately uses the vague word anyone in v. 2 Samuel 14:10. The woman, however, sticks to her own story by referring to my son, while she uses a very sensitive term, avenger of blood (v. 2 Samuel 14:11), which would apply to David himself. David indirectly expresses his determination to bring back his own lost son (v. 2 Samuel 14:11). The woman says what Joab has sent her to say (vv. 2 Samuel 14:13) and then goes back to her made-up story (vv. 2 Samuel 14:15). This in v. 2 Samuel 14:15 would refer both to her real message in vv. 2 Samuel 14:13 and to her “family problem” in vv. 2 Samuel 14:5.