What does 2 Samuel 14:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help,a O king."
SPAKE - Seems to be an accidental error for came, which is found in many manuscipts and versions. HELP - literally, save (see the margin). It is the same cry as Hosanna, i. e. save now Psalms 118:25....
4. DAVID AND ABSALOM CHAPTER 14 _ 1. Joab's scheme (2 Samuel 14:1)_ 2. The woman of Tekoah before the king (2 Samuel 14:4) 3. Joab brings Absalom to Jerusalem (2 Samuel 14:21) 4. Absalom's beauty...
2 SAMUEL 14. THE RETURN OF ABSALOM (J). 2 SAMUEL 14:1. Joab perceives the king's longing for his son (p. 67), and sends to him a woman of Tekoa (p. 31), about 5 miles S. of Beth-lehem, with a trumpe...
SPAKE TO THE KING. Many codices, with three early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "came in unto the king"....
_And when the woman … spake … she fell_ All the versions and many Hebrew MSS read as the sense requires: "And the woman of Tekoah CAME to the king, and fell," &c. _fell on her face to the ground_ It...
5. Absalom's Exile Ended, 2 Samuel 14:1-33. _Joab and the Woman of Tekoah._ 2 Samuel 14:1-20 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart _was_ toward Absalom. 2 And Joab sent to Teko...
_AND COME TO THE KING, AND SPEAK ON THIS MANNER UNTO HIM. SO JOAB PUT THE WORDS IN HER MOUTH._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
14:4 spoke (c-6) Or 'came.'...
ABSALOM'S RETURN FROM GESHUR After waiting for two years, Absalom forces Joab to use his influence to bring about a reconciliation between him and his father....
DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL 2 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 14 JOAB PLANS TO BRING ABSALOM BACK TO JERUSALEM V1 Joab, the son of Zeruiah, knew that King David was constantly thinking about Ab...
SPAKE TO THE KING. — Many MSS. and the LXX., Vulg., and Syriac have _came_ to the king. The difference is immaterial....
וַ֠ תֹּאמֶר הָ אִשָּׁ֤ה הַ תְּקֹעִית֙ אֶל ־הַ מֶּ֔לֶךְ וַ תִּפֹּ֧ל עַל ־אַפֶּ֛יהָ אַ֖רְצָה...
CHAPTER XVIII. _ ABSALOM BANISHED AND BROUGHT BACK_ 2 Samuel 13:38 - 2 Samuel 14:1. GESHUR, to which Absalom fled after the murder of Amnon, accompanied in all likelihood by the men who had slain hi...
JOAB'S PLEA FOR THE FUGITIVE 2 Samuel 14:1 Joab had ends of his own to serve in securing the return of Absalom. Were the two sworn together to hatch a great plot? Or was Absalom shrewdly using Joab...
Opinions widely differ over why Joab set himself to bring Absalom back. The most probable reason- is that he "perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom." There is certainly a strange fascinat...
_Save me. So the Jews frequently repeated Hosanna; and David addressed God, save us, 1 Paralipomenon xvi. 35. (Tirinus)_...
(2) And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as...
In the sketch proposed of these books of scripture there is of course no pretension to notice every point of interest they contain, but only a general comprehensive view, as far as the Lord enables me...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 14 THROUGH 20. David's partiality for Absalom had yet other and more painful results, and heavy chastisements. It is painful to see the conqueror of Goliath...
AND WHEN THE WOMAN OF TEKOAH SPAKE TO THE KING,.... Or after she had spoken to him, being introduced by Joab, as is probable; when she had saluted him with God save the king, or May the king live, or...
And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king. Ver. 4. _She fell on her face to the ground, &c._] And so she insinuatet...
1 Ioab, suborning a widow of Tekoah, by a parable to incline the Kings heart to fetch home Absalom, bringeth him to Hierusalem. 25 Absaloms beautie, haire, and children. 28 After two yeres, Absalom...
THE WISE WOMAN OF TEKOAH...
David's concern for Absalom became known to Joab. Joab was a man not too concerned about truth and justice, but rather about the outward prosperity of the kingdom of Israel, for he knew that his own p...
HELP: _ Heb._ save...
1-20 We may notice here, how this widow pleads God's mercy, and his clemency toward poor guilty sinners. The state of sinners is a state of banishment from God. God pardons none to the dishonour of hi...
No text from Poole on this verse....
2 Samuel 14:4 woman H802 Tekoa H8621 spoke H559 (H8799) king H4428 fell H5307 (H8799) face H639 ground H776 prostrated H7812 (H8691) said H559 (H8799) Help H3467 (H8685) king H4428 fell on her - 2 Sa...
CONTENTS: The recall of Absalom and David's forgiveness. CHARACTERS: God, David, Joab, Absalom, woman of Tekoah, Tamar. CONCLUSION: If we let private affections stand in the way of public duty (See...
2 Samuel 14:2. _Tekoah;_ a city of Judah, twelve miles south of Jerusalem. 2 Chronicles 11:6. 2 Samuel 14:6. _The one smote the other,_ probably with some weapon, or sharp instrument. The lord Ellenb...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 14:4 A woman uses a parable to appeal to David, for the good of his family, to set aside the ordinary laws demanding the death of a murderer (e.g., Numbers 35:31). Now that A...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES.— 2 Samuel 14:1. “NOW JOAB,” etc. Most commentators attribute Joab’s action in this matter to motives of self-interest. It appears highly probably that Absalom was now th...
EXPOSITION 2 SAMUEL 14:1 THE KING'S HEART WAS TOWARD ABSALOM. Again there is a diversity of view as to the right rendering. The preposition does not usually mean "toward," but "against," and is so re...
So Joab realizing that David is proud and stubborn and really wants to see his son, but won't make the first move, got hold of a widow woman in Tekoah, and he said to her, Now you go and tell David th...
1 Samuel 20:41; 1 Samuel 25:23; 2 Kings 6:26; 2 Samuel 1:2; Job 29:12; Luke 18:3...