12And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.
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And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones. …
Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.
And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)How the ten tribes deserted the house of David we read in the foregoing chapter. They had formerly sat loose to that family ( 2 Sam. 20:1 , 2 ), and now they quite threw it off, not considering how much it would weaken the common interest and take Israel down from that pitch of glory at which it had arrived in the last reign. But thus the kingdom must be corrected as well as the house of David. 1.…
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