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2 Samuel 14:9-19

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9 The woman of Tekoa said to the king, "O my lord, the king, 1the iniquity is on me and my father's house, but 2the king and his throne are guiltless."
10 So the king said, "Whoever speaks to you, bring him to me, and he will not touch you anymore *."
11 Then she said, "Please let the king remember the LORD your God, 3so that the avenger of blood will not continue to destroy, otherwise they will destroy my son." And he said, "4As the LORD lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground."
12 Then the woman said, "Please let your maidservant speak a word to my lord the king." And he said, "Speak."
13 The woman said, "5Why then have you planned such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring back 6his banished one.
14 "For 7we will surely die and are 8like water spilled on the ground which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but plans ways so that 9the banished one will not be cast out from him.
15 "Now the reason I have come to speak this word to my lord the king is that the people have made me afraid; so your maidservant said, 'Let me now speak to the king, perhaps the king will perform the request of his maidservant.
16 'For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would destroy both me and my son from 10the inheritance of God.'
17 "Then your maidservant said, 'Please let the word of my lord the king be comforting, for as 11the angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and evil. And may the LORD your God be with you.' "
18 Then the king answered and said to the woman, "Please do not hide anything from me that I am about to ask you." And the woman said, "Let my lord the king please speak."
19 So the king said, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?" And the woman replied, "As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken. Indeed, it was 12your servant Joab who commanded me, and it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your maidservant;
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2 Samuel 14:9-19 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO SECOND SAMUEL 14

This chapter relates that Joab, perceiving David's inclination to bring back Absalom, employed a wise woman of Tekoah to lay before him a feigned case of hers, drawn up by Joab, whereby this point was gained from the king, that murder might be dispensed with in her case, 2Sa 14:1-20; which being applied to the case of Absalom, and the king finding out that the hand of Joab was in this, sent for him, and ordered him to bring Absalom again, though as yet he would not see his face, 2Sa 14:21-24; and after some notice being taken of the beauty of Absalom's person, particularly of his head of hair, and of the number of his children, 2Sa 14:25-27; it is related, that after two full years Absalom was uneasy that he might not see the king's face, and sent for Joab, who refused to come to him, till he found means to oblige him to it, who, with the king's leave, introduced him to him, 2Sa 14:28-33.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 12

  • 1. Genesis 43:9; 1 Samuel 25:24
  • 2. 1 Kings 2:33
  • 3. Numbers 35:19, 21; Deuteronomy 19:4-10
  • 4. 1 Samuel 14:45; 1 Kings 1:52; Matthew 10:30
  • 5. 2 Samuel 12:7; 1 Kings 20:40-42
  • 6. 2 Samuel 13:37, 38
  • 7. Job 30:23; Job 34:15; Hebrews 9:27
  • 8. Psalms 58:7
  • 9. Num 35:15, 25, 28
  • 10. Deuteronomy 32:9; 1 Samuel 26:19
  • 11. 1 Samuel 29:9; 2 Samuel 14:20; 2 Samuel 19:27
  • 12. 2 Samuel 14:3

Footnotes 7

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