2 Samuel 13:25

And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.

Ver. 25. Lest we be chargeable unto thee.] So tender was David over this his ungracious son: he was ever too passionately affected to his children, as is afore noted.

And he pressed him.] Too fair shows are a just argument of unsoundness. No natural face hath so clear a white and red as the painted.

But blessed him.] Benedixet, i.e., vale dixit ei, as Vatablus rendereth it: he dismissed him with good wishes, et fortassis etiam munere, and haply also with a gift, saith Junius.