John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 19:37
Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again ,.... To his own city, after he is gone ever Jordan, and seen the king a little way on his journey: that I may die in my own city : the city of Rogelim, where perhaps he was born, and had lived all his days, and where it is natural for people to desire to die, even in their native place: and be buried by the grave of my father, and of my mother : or "in" their grave, as Kimchi and Ben Melech, in the sepulchre of his fathers, where men... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 19:31-39
David had already graced the triumphs of his restoration with the generous remission of the injuries that had been done to him; we have him here gracing them with a no less generous reward of the kindnesses that had been shown to him. Barzillai, the Gileadite, who had a noble seat at Rogelim, not far from Mahanaim, was the man who, of all the nobility and gentry of that country, had been most kind to David in his distress. If Absalom had prevailed, it is likely he would have suffered for his... read more