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2 Samuel 13:35

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So Jonadab said to the king, “Look, the sons of the king have arrived! It is just as your servant said.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king’s sons are come: as thy servant said, so it is.

KJV

And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king’s sons come: as thy servant said, so it is.

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This verse in 2 Samuel 13

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
The watchman, as his duty was, had sent immediate notice to the king that he saw a crowd approaching (see 2Ki 9:17-20). Jonadab, who was with the king, was prompt to give the explanation.

This site's exposition

kept the watch lifted up his eyes

on 2 Samuel 13:34-36

A watchman posted to look down the road, the same kind of office that will one day spot Absalom's own end at chapter 18, sees the king's sons coming while Jonadab is still speaking. The false report of verse 30 dissolves the moment the company comes into view, and grief turns from all the sons to the one who will not walk through the gate again. David and his servants weep sore, not from the worst they feared, but from a lesser and still real loss.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

And Jonadab said to the king, behold, the king's sons come,.... For as they came nearer, it was plainly discovered that they were the king's sons, seen on the side of the hill: as thy servant said, so it is; he seems to applaud himself, and exult at his penetration and foresight.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Amnon's character, we have reason to think, was bad in other things; if he had not forsaken God, he would never have been given up to these vile affections. Godly parents have often been afflicted with wicked children; grace does not run in the blood, but corruption does.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The grief David had been in for that which was not made him the better able to bear that which was, by giving him a sensible occasion, when he was undeceived, to thank God that all his sons were not dead: yet that Amnon was dead, and slain by his own brother is such a treacherous barbarous manner, was enough to put the king and court, the king and kingdom, into real mourning.

The words behind it

12 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֹּ֤אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • יֽוֹנָדָב֙Jonadab

    yonadavH3122 →7 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַמֶּ֔לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • הִנֵּ֥הthere!

    hinehH2009 →843 times

  • בְנֵֽי־[the] sons of

    venei-H1121 →4930 times

  • הַמֶּ֖לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • בָּ֑אוּthey have come

    bauH935 →2568 times

  • כִּדְבַ֥רaccording to [the] word of

    kidvarH1697 →1440 times

  • עַבְדְּךָ֖servant your

    ʾavdekhaH5650 →799 times

  • כֵּ֥ןso

    kenH3651 →771 times

  • הָיָֽה׃it has happened

    hayahH1961 →3559 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Samuel

David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
2 Samuel: the study guide →Read 2 Samuel 13 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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