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2 Samuel 14:16

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For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.’

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

KJV

For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

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This verse in 2 Samuel 14

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Absalom has reason to complain that he is treated by his own father more sternly and severely than the meanest subject in the realm; and the whole nation will have cause for saying that the king shows more attention to the petition of a humble woman than to the wishes and desires of a whole kingdom.

This site's exposition

the people have made me afraid

on 2 Samuel 14:15-17

She closes her case with the fear that drove her, the people have made me afraid, and folds in a flattering line that the king discerns good and bad like an angel of God. The same comparison recurs at verse 20 in Joab's own mouth once the trick is exposed, so the flattery becomes a line the reader is let in on before David is. Wesley reads her closing therefore the Lord thy God will be with thee as the reward she promises a king who forgives what strict justice would condemn.

This site's exposition

both me and my son

John Wesley reads the inheritance as the land where God placed his presence and worship. Her words hint at Absalom's danger, living in Geshur among idolaters and far from God's house. David himself once grieved the same exile at 1 Samuel 26:19.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Inheritance - That is, out of that land which God gave to his people to be their inheritance, and in which alone God hath settled the place of his presence and worship: whereby she intimates the danger of Absalom's living in a state of separation from God, and his house, amongst idolaters.
For the king will hear,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

"And, in order to this, the Lord thy God will be with thee, to assist thee in this and every judgment thou givest." Great expectations are great engagements, especially to persons of honour, to do their utmost not to disappoint those that depend upon them. The hand of Joab is suspected by the king, and acknowledged by the woman, to be in all this,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman--The king was strongly attached to Absalom; and having now got over his sorrow for the violent death of Amnon, he was desirous of again enjoying the society of his favorite son, who had now been three long years absent.

The words behind it

15 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.

  • כִּ֚יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • יִשְׁמַ֣עhe will hear

    yishma'H8085 →1159 times

  • הַמֶּ֔לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • לְהַצִּ֥ילto deliver

    lehatzilH5337 →212 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אֲמָת֖וֹmaidservant his

    ʾamatoH519 →56 times

  • מִכַּ֣ףfrom [the] hand of

    mikafH3709 →192 times

  • הָאִ֑ישׁthe man

    haishH376 →1663 times

  • לְהַשְׁמִ֨ידto destroy

    lehashmidH8045 →90 times

  • אֹתִ֤י<obj.> me

    ʾotiH853 →10935 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • בְּנִי֙son my

    beniH1121 →4930 times

  • יַ֔חַדtogether

    yachadH3162 →141 times

  • מִֽנַּחֲלַ֖תfrom [the] inheritance of

    minachalatH5159 →222 times

  • אֱלֹהִֽים׃God

    ʾelohimH430 →2601 times

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

Related verses

1 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 26:19

    Now please, may my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then may He accept an offering. But if men have done it,…

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 20:19

      I am among the peaceable and faithful in Israel, but you are trying to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why would you swallow up the LORD’s inheritance?”

    • 2 Samuel 16:11

      Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son, my own flesh and blood, seeks my life. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone and let him…

    • Genesis 8:21

      When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth.…

    • Galatians 1:8–9

      But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be under a curse!

    • Psalms 120:5

      Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

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

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