2 Samuel 19:19

19 and said, "Don't think badly of me, my master! Overlook my irresponsible outburst on the day my master the king left Jerusalem - don't hold it against me!

2 Samuel 19:19 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 19:19

And said unto the king, let not my lord the king impute
iniquity unto me
That is, deal with him according to the desert of it, punish him for it, but forgive it: for non-imputation of sin is in effect the pardon of it:

neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day
my lord the king went out of Jerusalem:
he desires that he would not only forgive, but forget it; he owns it was a perverse action, and aggravated by being done at the time when the king was in great trouble and distress:

that the king should take it to his heart;
and determine to avenge himself on him for it.

2 Samuel 19:19 In-Context

17 a thousand Benjaminites with him. And Ziba, Saul's steward, with his fifteen sons and twenty servants, waded across the Jordan to meet the king
18 and brought his entourage across, doing whatever they could to make the king comfortable.
19 and said, "Don't think badly of me, my master! Overlook my irresponsible outburst on the day my master the king left Jerusalem - don't hold it against me!
20 I know I sinned, but look at me now - the first of all the tribe of Joseph to come down and welcome back my master the king!"
21 Abishai son of Zeruiah interrupted, "Enough of this! Shouldn't we kill him outright? Why, he cursed God's anointed!"
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