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2 Samuel 14:23

in 2 Samuel 14

So Joab got up, went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

KJV

So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

This verse in 2 Samuel 14

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
So Joab arose and went to Geshur,.... Where Absalom was with his grandfather, the king of the place; see 2Sa 13:37, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem; from thence, which, according to Bunting (t), was the distance of eighty eight miles from it. (t) Travels, &c. p 146, 148.

This site's exposition

brought Absalom to Jerusalem

on 2 Samuel 14:23-24

Joab fetches Absalom from Geshur, but David's order lands short of full restoration, let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face. The pardon and the distance stand side by side, and the phrase saw not the king's face will be repeated at verse 28 to measure exactly how long that distance held. Clarke reads the king's caution as a proper mark of his own respect for justice, forgiving the life while still refusing the presence, so mercy and the memory of the crime are both kept in view.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

I see not how David can be justified in suspending the execution of the ancient law ( Gen. ix. 6 ), Whoso sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed, in which a righteous magistrate ought not to acknowledge even his brethren, or know his own children.

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 words behind it

8 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.

  • וַיָּ֥קָםand he arose

    vaiyakomH6965628 times

  • יוֹאָ֖בJoab

    yoavH3097144 times

  • וַיֵּ֣לֶךְand he went

    vaiyelekhH19801546 times

  • גְּשׁ֑וּרָהGeshur towards

    geshurahH16509 times

  • וַיָּבֵ֥אand he brought

    vaiyave'H9352568 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • אַבְשָׁל֖וֹםAbsalom

    ʾavshalomH53110 times

  • יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ פJerusalem

    yerushalimH3389643 times

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

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

    2 Samuel 3:3

    his second was Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; his third was Absalom, the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 27:8

      Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)

    • 1 Chronicles 3:1

      These were the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: The firstborn was Amnon by Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second was Daniel by Abigail of Carmel;

    • 1 Samuel 25:42

      So Abigail hurried and got on a donkey, and attended by five of her maidens, she followed David’s messengers and became his wife.

    • Deuteronomy 3:14

      Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this…

    • 1 Samuel 25:3

      His name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband, a Calebite, was harsh and evil in his dealings.

About 2 Samuel

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the 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.