2 Samuel 16:1
Bottle — A large bottle, or vessel proportionable to the other provisions.... [ Continue Reading ]
Bottle — A large bottle, or vessel proportionable to the other provisions.... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold — A rash sentence, and unrighteous to condemn a man unheard, upon the single testimony of his accuser, and servant. Find grace — Thy favour is more to me, than this gift; which, as a token of thy favour, I accept with all thankfulness.... [ Continue Reading ]
Of Saul — Either, The blood of Abner and Ishbosheth; which he imputes to David, as if they had been killed by David's contrivance: or, the death of Saul's seven sons, 2 Samuel 21:8, which, though related after this, seems to have been done before. Art taken — The same mischief thou didst bring upon... [ Continue Reading ]
What have I, &e. — In this matter I ask not your advice, nor will I follow it; nor do I desire you should at all concern yourselves in it. The Lord — God did not put any wickedness into Shimei's heart, for he had of himself an heart full of malignity against David; but only left him to his own wicke... [ Continue Reading ]
My life — Which is a greater mischief, than to reproach me with words. Benjamites — Of that tribe and family from which God hast taken away the kingdom, and given it to me. Let him — Do not now hinder him violently from it, nor punish him for it. It is meet I should bear the indignation of the Lord,... [ Continue Reading ]
Came — To the city of Bahurim.... [ Continue Reading ]
Is this — Doth this action answer that profession of friendship which thou hast hitherto made to him? He speaks thus only to try him. And he saith, thy friend, by way of reflection upon David; as one who was a friend to Hushai, and to strangers but not to his own son, whom, by his severity he provok... [ Continue Reading ]
Go — This counsel he gave, partly to revenge the injury done to Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, 2 Samuel 11:3, who was the son of Ahithophel, 2 Samuel 23:34, and principally for his own, and the people's safety, that the breach between David and Absalom might be irreparable. For this would provoke... [ Continue Reading ]
The top — Of the king's palace, the very place from whence David had gazed upon Bathsheba, 2 Samuel 11:2, so that his sin was legible in the very place of his punishment. Went in — To one, or some of them. And by so doing did farther make claim to the kingdom; and, as it were, take possession of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
The counsel, &c. — It was received by the people with equal veneration, and was usually attended with as certain success. Which is mentioned as the reason why a counsel which had so ill a face, should meet with such general approbation.... [ Continue Reading ]