13Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid: …
Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings: …
And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-18)Here is Absalom quite at a loss, at his wit’s end first, and then at his life’s end. He that began the fight, big with the expectation of triumphing over David himself, with whom, if he had had him in his power, he would not have dealt gently, is now in the greatest consternation, when he meets the servants of David , 2 Sam. 18:9. Though they were forbidden to meddle with him, he durst not look th…
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