2 Samuel 18:29

29 Mais le roi dit: Le jeune homme, Absalom, se porte-t-il bien? Achimaats répondit: J'ai vu s'élever un grand tumulte, lorsque Joab envoyait le serviteur du roi et moi, ton serviteur; mais je ne sais ce que c'était.

2 Samuel 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.

---

FOOTNOTES:

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

2 Samuel 18:29 In-Context

27 Et la sentinelle dit: Il me semble, à voir courir le premier, que c'est ainsi que court Achimaats, fils de Tsadok. Et le roi dit: C'est un homme de bien, il vient pour de bonnes nouvelles.

28 Alors Achimaats cria, et dit au roi: Tout va bien! Et il se prosterna devant le roi, le visage contre terre, et dit: Béni soit l'Éternel, ton Dieu, qui a livré les hommes qui avaient levé leurs mains contre le roi, mon seigneur!

29 Mais le roi dit: Le jeune homme, Absalom, se porte-t-il bien? Achimaats répondit: J'ai vu s'élever un grand tumulte, lorsque Joab envoyait le serviteur du roi et moi, ton serviteur; mais je ne sais ce que c'était.

30 Et le roi dit: Mets-toi là de côté. Il se mit de côté, et se tint là.

31 Alors Cushi parut, et dit: Que le roi, mon seigneur, ait cette bonne nouvelle; c'est que l'Éternel t'a fait justice aujourd'hui de la main de tous ceux qui s'élevaient contre toi.