2 Samuele 18:29

29 E il re disse: Il giovane Absalom è egli sano e salvo? Ed Ahimaas disse: Io vidi una gran calca, quando Ioab mandò il fante del re, e me, tuo servitore; ma io non ho saputo che cosa si fosse.

2 Samuele 18:29 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 18:29

And the king said, is the young man Absalom safe?
&c.] Or, is there "peace" ^F6 to him? you say there is peace, and that prosperity and success have attended my army; but what peace has Absalom? is he well, and in safety? David seemed more concerned for him than for his army and the success of it; and even suggests as if it was nothing if Absalom was not safe, so great were his affections towards him:

and Ahimaaz answered, when Joab sent the king's servant;
which was Cushi, the first messenger, whose office perhaps it was to be one of the king's messengers, and therefore called his servant:

and [me] thy servant:
Ahimaaz himself who was sent after the other:

I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what [it was];
he perceived that the tidings of the death of Absalom would be disagreeable to the king, and therefore concealed it from him; and though a good man, he cannot be excused from lying, for certainly he knew that Absalom was dead, as appears from ( 2 Samuel 18:19 2 Samuel 18:20 ) ; though indeed what he said might be true, that after Joab had sent him and Cushi, as the Targum paraphrases it, he saw a company of people gathered together in a tumultuous manner, the meaning of which he knew not; but then this was no other than an evasion.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 (renl Mwlv) "estne pax puero?" V. L. "pax puero", Pagninus, Montanus.

2 Samuele 18:29 In-Context

27 E la guardia disse: Il correr del primo mi pare il correre di Ahimaas, figliuolo di Sadoc. E il re disse: Costui è uomo da bene; egli deve venire per alcuna buona novella.

28 Allora Ahimaas gridò, e disse al re: Bene stii. E, dopo essersi inchinato in terra davanti al re sopra la sua faccia, disse: Benedetto sia il Signore Iddio tuo, il quale ti ha dati nelle mani quegli uomini che aveano levate le mani loro contro al re, mio signore.

29 E il re disse: Il giovane Absalom è egli sano e salvo? Ed Ahimaas disse: Io vidi una gran calca, quando Ioab mandò il fante del re, e me, tuo servitore; ma io non ho saputo che cosa si fosse.

30 E il re gli disse: Va’ da canto, e fermati là. Egli adunque andò da canto, e si fermò.

31 Ed ecco, l’Etiopo giunse, e disse: Il re, mio signore, riceva queste buone novelle, che il Signore ti ha oggi fatto ragione, liberandoti delle mani di tutti coloro che si erano levati contro a te.