Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 14:33
Kissed - This was the pledge of reconciliation. (See the marginal references and Genesis 45:15.) read more
2 Samuel 14
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Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 14
A.M. 2977. B.C. 1027. The story told David by the widow of Tekoah, 2 Samuel 14:1-20 . Absalom is brought back to Jerusalem, but not to court, 2 Samuel 14:21-24 . An account of Absalom’s person and children, 2 Samuel 14:25-27 . He is at length introduced to David, 2 Samuel 14:28-33 . read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 14:1
2 Samuel 14:1. That the king’s heart was toward Absalom That he longed to see him, and have him restored to his country; but was ashamed to show kindness to one whom God’s law and his own conscience obliged him to punish. He wanted, therefore, a fair pretence for it, with which Joab now furnished him. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 14:2
2 Samuel 14:2. Joab sent to Tekoah A city in the tribe of Judah, about twelve miles south of Jerusalem. And fetched thence a wise woman One whom he knew to be fit for such an undertaking, having good sense and a ready utterance; and said, I pray thee feign thyself to be a mourner Who put on no ornaments, nor used any ointment, but appeared in a sordid, neglected condition. She was to assume this habit to heighten the idea of her distress, that her circumstances as a widow, her mournful... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 14:7
2 Samuel 14:7 . Deliver him, that we may kill him Put him to death, as the law requires, Numbers 35:18-19. We will destroy the heir also Take away his life, although he be the heir, or the only one remaining of the family. And so they shall quench my coal which is left Deprive me of the little comfort of my life which remains, and ruin the only hope of my family. Shall leave to my husband neither name nor remainder Shall utterly extinguish my husband’s memory. The reader will easily... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 14:8
2 Samuel 14:8. The king said, Go to thy house, &c. Notwithstanding the forementioned dissimilarity, the case was too like his own to suffer David to be unmoved; he soon felt her distress, and told her she might return to her house, and leave the care of her business to him; he would give proper directions about it. But not having yet obtained what she wanted, in seeming solicitude for her son, she added, O king, the iniquity be on me, and the king and his throne be guiltless She... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 14:11
2 Samuel 14:11. Let the king remember the Lord thy God In whose presence thou hast made me this promise, to stay the avenger of blood from causing any further destruction in my family. She intended to draw him thus distantly and insensibly into the obligation of an oath: and her address had the desired effect; for the king, to convince her of the integrity of his intentions, immediately answered, As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the ground. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 14:12-13
2 Samuel 14:12-13. Then the woman said Having gained this point, she begs leave to say one word more, which being granted, she immediately proceeds to expostulate with the king upon his own conduct, and unkindness to the people of God, in not pardoning his own son, and bringing him back from exile. Wherefore then If thou wouldest 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... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 14:14
2 Samuel 14:14. For we must needs die Some by one means, and some by another; death being the common lot of all men, Amnon must have died, if Absalom had not cut him off; and Absalom, if he do not die by the hand of justice, must die by the necessity of nature, and, if he be not recalled soon, may die in exile, which would undoubtedly be a great affliction both to thee, O king, and to the people of God. And thou thyself must die, and therefore art obliged to take care of the life of thy... read more
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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 14:27
Three sons - These probably died in infancy (see the marginal reference). From Tamar must have been born Maachah, the mother of Abijah, and the favorite wife of Rehoboam 1 Kings 15:2; 2 Chronicles 11:20-22. read more