2 Samuel 14:1
_NOW JOAB THE SON OF ZERUIAH PERCEIVED THAT THE KING'S HEART WAS TOWARD ABSALOM._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW JOAB THE SON OF ZERUIAH PERCEIVED THAT THE KING'S HEART WAS TOWARD ABSALOM._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 A WOMAN THAT HAD A LONG TIME MOURNED FOR THE DEAD:_ Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise wo... [ Continue Reading ]
_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.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND, BEHOLD, THE WHOLE FAMILY IS RISEN AGAINST THINE HANDMAID, AND THEY SAID, DELIVER HIM THAT SMOTE HIS BROTHER, THAT WE MAY KILL HIM, FOR THE LIFE OF HIS BROTHER WHOM HE SLEW; AND WE WILL DESTROY THE HEIR ALSO: AND SO THEY SHALL QUENCH MY COAL WHICH IS LEFT, AND SHALL NOT LEAVE TO MY HUSBAND NEIT... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE KING SAID UNTO THE WOMAN, GO TO THINE HOUSE, AND I WILL GIVE CHARGE CONCERNING THEE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE WOMAN OF TEKOAH SAID UNTO THE KING, MY LORD, O KING, THE INIQUITY BE ON ME, AND ON MY FATHER'S HOUSE: AND THE KING AND HIS THRONE BE GUILTLESS._ The woman ... said ... O king, the iniquity be on me - i:e., the iniquity of arresting the course of justice and pardoning a homicide, whom the g... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE KING SAID, WHOSOEVER SAITH OUGHT UNTO THEE, BRING HIM TO ME, AND HE SHALL NOT TOUCH THEE ANY MORE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE WOMAN SAID, WHEREFORE THEN HAST THOU THOUGHT SUCH A THING AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF GOD? FOR THE KING DOTH SPEAK THIS THING AS ONE WHICH IS FAULTY, IN THAT THE KING DOTH NOT FETCH HOME AGAIN HIS BANISHED._ Wherefore then hast thou thought ... Her argument may be made clear in the following par... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR WE MUST NEEDS DIE, AND ARE AS WATER SPILT ON THE GROUND, WHICH CANNOT BE GATHERED UP AGAIN; NEITHER DOTH GOD RESPECT ANY PERSON: YET DOTH HE DEVISE MEANS, THAT HIS BANISHED BE NOT EXPELLED FROM HIM._ We ... are as water spilt on the ground ... Metaphors are suggested by natural feelings, or or... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THEREFORE THAT I AM COME TO SPEAK OF THIS THING UNTO MY LORD THE KING, IT IS BECAUSE THE PEOPLE HAVE MADE ME AFRAID: AND THY HANDMAID SAID, I WILL NOW SPEAK UNTO THE KING; IT MAY BE THAT THE KING WILL PERFORM THE REQUEST OF HIS HANDMAID._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THINE HANDMAID SAID, THE WORD OF MY LORD THE KING SHALL NOW BE COMFORTABLE: FOR AS AN ANGEL OF GOD, SO IS MY LORD THE KING TO DISCERN GOOD AND BAD: THEREFORE THE LORD THY GOD WILL BE WITH THEE._ As an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. 'Though this expression,' says... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THE KING ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THE WOMAN, HIDE NOT FROM ME, I PRAY THEE, THE THING THAT I SHALL ASK THEE. AND THE WOMAN SAID, LET MY LORD THE KING NOW SPEAK._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOAB FELL TO THE GROUND ON HIS FACE, AND BOWED HIMSELF, AND THANKED THE KING: AND JOAB SAID, TO DAY THY SERVANT KNOWETH THAT I HAVE FOUND GRACE IN THY SIGHT, MY LORD, O KING, IN THAT THE KING HATH FULFILLED THE REQUEST OF HIS SERVANT._ Today thy servant knoweth that I have found grace in thy s... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO JOAB AROSE AND WENT TO GESHUR, AND BROUGHT ABSALOM TO JERUSALEM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT IN ALL ISRAEL THERE WAS NONE TO BE SO MUCH PRAISED AS ABSALOM FOR HIS BEAUTY: FROM THE SOLE OF HIS FOOT EVEN TO THE CROWN OF HIS HEAD THERE WAS NO BLEMISH IN HIM._ But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. This extraordinary popularity arose, not only fr... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN HE POLLED HIS HEAD, (FOR IT WAS AT EVERY YEAR'S END THAT HE POLLED IT: BECAUSE THE HAIR WAS HEAVY ON HIM, THEREFORE HE POLLED IT:) HE WEIGHED THE HAIR OF HIS HEAD AT TWO HUNDRED SHEKELS AFTER THE KING'S WEIGHT._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO ABSALOM DWELT TWO FULL YEARS IN JERUSALEM, AND SAW NOT THE KING'S FACE._ So Absalom dwelt ... Whatever error David committed in authorizing the recall of Absalom, he displayed great prudence and command over his feelings afterward; because his son was not admitted into his father's presence, bu... [ Continue Reading ]