Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
2 Samuel 13:38
So Absalom fled and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
So Absalom fled and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
3. FURTHER CHASTISEMENT: AMNON, TAMAR, AND ABSALOM CHAPTER 13 _ 1. Amnon's wicked desire (2 Samuel 13:1)_ 2. The incest (2 Samuel 13:6) 3. His hatred (2 Samuel 13:15) 4. Amnon murd
2 SAMUEL 13. AMNON, TAMAR, AND ABSALOM (J). 2 SAMUEL 13:1. Amnon, David's eldest son, forces his half-sister, Tamar, the full sister of Absalom. He might have married her (2 Samuel 3:5 *) but did not...
"If the text of these verses is sound, they afford a curious specimen of Hebrew narrative. In 2 Samuel 13:34 we read _Absalom fled_; in 2 Samuel 13:37, _Absalom fled and went to Talmai, the son of Amm...
The news brought to David. Absalom's flight 31. _tare his garments_ RENT HIS CLOTHES. The E. V. has introduced a distinction which does not exist in the Hebrew. Cp. ch. 2 Samuel 1:11. _lay on the ea...
_Absalom Flees to Talmai._ 2 Samuel 13:30-39 30 And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of the...
_SO ABSALOM FLED, AND WENT TO GESHUR, AND WAS THERE THREE YEARS._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
THE CRIME OF AMNON, AND ABSALOM'S VENGEANCE This narrative and the history of Absalom's rebellion is omitted in Chronicles....
DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL 2 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 13 AMNON AND TAMAR V1 David had a son called Absalom and another son called Amnon. Absalom had a beautiful sister called Tamar. Am...
WAS THERE THREE YEARS. — This is the third time the flight of Absalom has been mentioned; but, after the custom of Scripture narrative, each repetition has been for the purpose of introducing some add...
וְ אַבְשָׁלֹ֥ום בָּרַ֖ח וַ יֵּ֣לֶךְ גְּשׁ֑וּר...
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...
ABSALOM FLEES WHILE DAVID MOURNS 2 Samuel 13:28 For two years Absalom nursed his anger. Time did not alter his resolve, though it lulled to sleep any suspicion that might have been excited if he had...
The story of Amnon's sin is of a sin committed by a child of David similar to his own. When the story was told to him, we are told that he was wroth. We are not told that he disciplined Amnon. How cou...
_Ceased. We do not read that he had pursued Absalom before. (Calmet) --- Now he laid aside all thoughts of punishing him, as he began even to desire to see him again, when he reflected that Amnon had...
(34) But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him. (35) And Jonadab said unto the...
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 11, 12, AND 13. The history of David and the wife of Uriah follows. David is no longer acting by faith in God's service. When the time comes at which kings go...
SO ABSALOM FLED,.... This is the third time it is mentioned, and the reason of it here Abarbinel thinks is, that when he first fled to his grandfather, he used to stand openly in the court of his pala...
So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years. _And David mourned for his son every day,_] _i.e., _ For his son Amnon. This was a long while to mourn for a lost son - viz, every day...
1 Amnon louing Tamar, by Ionadabs counsell faining himselfe sicke, rauisheth her. 15 Hee hateth her, and shamefully turneth her away. 19 Absalom entertaineth her, and concealeth his purpose. 23 At...
WICKEDNESS INVADING DAVID'S FAMILY David did not have to wait long to see the sad governmental results of his sin begin to be manifest in his own family His son Ammon was so attracted by the beauty o...
30-39 Jonadab was as guilty of Ammon's death, as of his sin; such false friends do they prove, who counsel us to do wickedly. Instead of loathing Absalom as a murderer, David, after a time, longed to...
No text from Poole on this verse....
2 Samuel 13:38 Absalom H53 fled H1272 (H8804) went H3212 (H8799) Geshur H1650 three H7969 years H8141...
CONTENTS: Ammon's crime. Absalom's vengeance for Tamar's wrong. CHARACTERS: David, Absalom, Ammon, Tamar, Jonadab. CONCLUSION: Fleshly lusts are their own punishment and not only war against the sou...
2 Samuel 13:2. _He fell sick for his sister Tamar._ Most young men who have come to ruin, have followed some blind and impetuous passion. 2 Samuel 13:13. _The king will not withhold me from thee._ In...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 2 Samuel 13:1. “ABSALOM” and “TAMAR” were the children of Maacha, and “AMNON” was David’s eldest son by Ahinoam the Jezreelitess (see chap 2 Samuel 3:2). 2 Samuel 13:2
EXPOSITION 2 SAMUEL 13:1 AFTER THIS. This phrase, as we have seen on 2 Samuel 10:1, has little chronological force, but the date of the sad event which formed the second stage in David's punishment c...
So we find that the problems begin very soon thereafter. David had a son by the name of Amnon, and Amnon was talking with a man who was called his friend (2 Samuel 13:1; 2 Samuel 13:3), Yet, I would c...
2 Samuel 14:23; 2 Samuel 14:32; 2 Samuel 15:8; Deuteronomy 3:14;...