CHAPTER XVII.
_ ABSALOM AND AMNON._
2 Samuel 13:1.
LIVING sorrow, says the proverb, is worse than a dead. The dead sorrow
had been very grievous to David; what the living sorrow, of which this
chapter tells us, must have been, we cannot conceive. It is his own
disorderly lusts, reappearing in his... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XVIII.
_ ABSALOM BANISHED AND BROUGHT BACK_
2 Samuel 13:38 - 2 Samuel 14:1.
GESHUR, to which Absalom fled after the murder of Amnon, accompanied
in all likelihood by the men who had slain him, was a small kingdom in
Syria, lying between Mount Hermon and Damascus. Maacah, Absalom's
mother,... [ Continue Reading ]