27But Absalom pressed him, that he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.
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He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-29)What Solomon says of the beginning of strife is as true of the beginning of all sin, it is as the letting forth of water; when once the flood-gates are plucked up, an inundation follows; one mischief begets another, and it is hard to say what shall be in the end thereof. I. We are here told how David resented the tidings of Amnon’s sin: He was very wroth , 2 Sam. 13:21. So he had reason to be, tha…
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