Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 19:11-12
2 Samuel 19:11-12. Speak unto the elders of Judah, &c.— The authors of the Universal History charge this message with partiality, and with being, on that account, the cause of jealousy and revolt among the other ten tribes: but I see nothing in the history to justify this reflection. Instead of "inviting the elders of Judah to come foremost to relieve him," as these writers suppose, he only gently reproved them for being the last; urging his being of their own tribe as a reason why they... read more
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 19:10
2 Samuel 19:10. Why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?— David, now victorious over a rebel army, had it in his power to take ample revenge of all those whose treachery and infidelity well deserved to be severely chastised; and it is evident, that if he had had any thing revengeful and sanguinary in his nature, he could now want no pretext either of justice or of policy to indulge it to the full: but he was governed by very different principles, and saw the whole affair of his son's... read more