2 Samuel 19:5
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| Overview - 2 Samuel 19 | |
| 1 | Joab causes the king to cease his mourning. |
| 9 | The Israelites are earnest to bring the king back. |
| 11 | David sends to the priests to incite them of Judah. |
| 18 | Shimei is pardoned; |
| 24 | Mephibosheth excused; |
| 32 | Barzillai dismissed, and Chimham his son taken into the king's family. |
| 41 | The Israelites expostulate with Judah for bringing home the king without them. |
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2 Samuel 19:5 (King James Version)
And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;
- Thou hast
- Every one must admit that David's immoderate grief for his rebellious son was imprudent, and that Joab's firm and sensible reproof was necessary to arouse him to a sense of his duty to his people: but, in his manner, Joab far exceeded the bounds of that reverence which a servant owes to his master, or a subject to his prince.
- saved
- Nehemiah 9:27 ; Psalms 3:8 ; Psalms 18:47 Psalms 18:48