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2 Samuel 14:21

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Then the king said to Joab, “I hereby grant this request. Go, bring back the young man Absalom.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back.

KJV

And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom again.

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This verse in 2 Samuel 14

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It is true God has thought of compassion towards poor sinners, not willing that any should perish, yet he is reconciled to them through a Mediator, who intercedes with him on their behalf, and to whom he has given these orders, Go, bring them again. God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, and he came to this land of our banishment to bring us to God.

This site's exposition

bring the young man Absalom again

on 2 Samuel 14:21-22

David grants the request to Joab directly, not to the woman, which shows he read the scheme correctly from the start and answers the man behind it. Joab's gratitude at verse 22 is genuine and self-interested at once, for the general's own past bloodguilt sits safer once the king has shown he can forgive a killing son. Henry reads the scene as a small figure of a greater mercy, for the king does not restore Absalom on his own first motion but is moved to say Go, bring them again, much as a mediator's plea rather than a sinner's own standing brings the banished home.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And the king said unto Joab,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

After an account of Absalom, his person, and family, we are told how at length he was introduced by Joab into the king's presence, and the king was thoroughly reconciled to him,

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

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.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

And the king said unto Joab - It appears that Joab was present at the time when the woman was in conference with the king, and no doubt others of David’s courtiers or officers were there also.

The words behind it

16 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

  • הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙the king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • יוֹאָ֔בJoab

    yoavH3097 →144 times

  • הִנֵּה־here!

    hineh-H2009 →843 times

  • נָ֥אplease

    na'H4994 →404 times

  • עָשִׂ֖יתִיI do

    ʾasitiH6213 →2628 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַדָּבָ֣רthe thing

    hadavarH1697 →1440 times

  • הַזֶּ֑ה<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • וְלֵ֛ךְand go

    velekhH1980 →1546 times

  • הָשֵׁ֥בbring back

    hashevH7725 →1056 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַנַּ֖עַרthe young man

    hanaarH5288 →239 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אַבְשָׁלֽוֹם׃Absalom

    ʾavshalomH53 →110 times

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

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

8 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

    2 Samuel 14:11

    “Please,” she replied, “may the king invoke the LORD your God to prevent the avenger of blood from increasing the devastation, so that my son may not be destroyed!” “As surely as the LORD…

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 14:45

      But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die—he who accomplished such a great deliverance for Israel? Never! As surely as the LORD lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the…

    • Numbers 35:19

      The avenger of blood is to put the murderer to death; when he finds him, he is to kill him.

    • Matthew 10:30

      And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

    • 1 Kings 1:52

      And Solomon replied, “If he is a man of character, not a single hair of his will fall to the ground. But if evil is found in him, he will die.”

    • Deuteronomy 19:4–10

      Now this is the situation regarding the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally, without intending to harm him:

  • Through

    1 Samuel 14:39

    As surely as the LORD who saves Israel lives, even if it is my son Jonathan, he must die!” But not one of the troops said a word.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 14:44

      And Saul declared, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if you, Jonathan, do not surely die!”

    • 2 Samuel 12:5

      David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!

    • 1 Samuel 14:24

      Now the men of Israel were in distress that day, for Saul had placed the troops under an oath, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food before evening, before I have taken…

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 Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & 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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