2 Samuel 13:37

37 Absalom aber floh und zog zu Thalmai, dem Sohn Ammihuds, dem König zu Gessur. Er aber trug Leid über seinen Sohn alle Tage.

2 Samuel 13:37 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 13:37

But Absalom fled
As before related, but here repeated for the sake of what follows:

and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur:
his mother's father, see ( 2 Samuel 3:3 ) , where he might hope for protection and safety:

and [David] mourned for his son every day;
or "all the days" ^F17, i.e. of the three years Absalom was in Geshur, about the end of which he was comforted concerning Amnon, as the following verses show. Some think it was for Absalom he mourned, but rather for Amnon. The reason why he mourned for him, when he did not for his child by Bathsheba, who died, because that was an infant, this a grown man, and heir to his crown, and was slain by the sword of his brother, and so fulfilled a threatening to himself on account of his own sin, which, hereby no doubt, was brought fresh to his mind.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 (Mymyh lk) "cunctis diebus", V. L. "omnibus diebus", Pagninus, Montanus.

2 Samuel 13:37 In-Context

35 Da sprach Jonadab zum König: Siehe, die Kinder des Königs kommen; wie dein Knecht gesagt hat, so ist's ergangen.

36 Und da er hatte ausgeredet, siehe, da kamen die Kinder des Königs und hoben ihre Stimme auf und weinten. Der König und alle seine Knechte weinten auch gar sehr.

37 Absalom aber floh und zog zu Thalmai, dem Sohn Ammihuds, dem König zu Gessur. Er aber trug Leid über seinen Sohn alle Tage.

38 Da aber Absalom geflohen war und gen Gessur gezogen, blieb er daselbst drei Jahre.

39 Und der König David hörte auf, auszuziehen wider Absalom; denn er hatte sich getröstet über Amnon, daß er tot war.