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2 Samuel 14:5-7

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5 And the king said to her, "What is your trouble?" She answered, 1"Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.
6 And your servant had two sons, and they quarreled with one another in the field. There was no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.
7 And now the whole clan has risen against your servant, and they say, 'Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed.' And so they would 2destroy the heir also. Thus they would quench my coal that is left and leave to my husband neither name nor 3remnant on the face of the earth."
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2 Samuel 14:5-7 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 3

  • 1. See 2 Samuel 12:1
  • 2. [Matthew 21:38; Mark 12:7; Luke 20:14]
  • 3. [Genesis 45:7]
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