33So Joab came to the king, and told him: and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.
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And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.
And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 28-33)Three years Absalom had been an exile from his father-in-law, and now two years a prisoner at large in his own house, and, in both, better dealt with than he deserved; yet his spirit was still unhumbled, his pride unmortified, and, instead of being thankful that his life is spared, he thinks himself sorely wronged that he is not restored to all his places at court. Had he truly repented of his sin…
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