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2 Samuel 19:42

in 2 Samuel 19

And all the men of Judah replied to the men of Israel, “We did this because the king is our relative. Why does this anger you? Have we ever eaten at the king’s expense or received anything for ourselves?”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then are ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all at the king’s cost? or hath he given us any gift?

KJV

And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king’s cost? or hath he given us any gift?

This verse in 2 Samuel 19

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Judah grounded their right to take the lead, on the ground of their nearer relationship to the king. This was a claim dangerous to the house of David; and it shows the seeds were already sown for that tribal dissension which, before long, led to the dismemberment of the kingdom.

This site's exposition

Then the king went on to Gilgal

on 2 Samuel 19:40-43

Judah escorts David across on the strength of nearest kinship, but Israel arrives asking why their brethren stole the king away without them, claiming ten parts in the king by tribal count against Judah's one. Judah answers that they gained nothing personally by it, only loyalty, yet the men of Judah spoke fiercer words than Israel did in reply. Henry reads the quarrel as the seed of the division that breaks open in the next chapter, since a people already arguing over who loves the king more is a people not far from arguing over who follows him at all.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

1 And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom. 2 And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.

quarantine:scripture (2026-07-29) — verbatim-scripture

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

(1.) They plead relations to the king: " He is near of kin to us, and therefore in a matter of mere ceremony, as this was, we may claim precedency. It was into our country that he was to be brought, and therefore who so fit as we to bring him?" (2.) They deny the insinuated charge of self-seeking in what they had done: " Have we eaten at all of the king's cost?

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — odd-straight-quotes

And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? - We have not done this for our own advantage; we have gained nothing by it; we did it through loyal attachment to our king.

The words behind it

26 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.

  • וַיַּעַן֩and he answered

    vaiyaanH6030331 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H36055413 times

  • אִ֨ישׁ<the> man of

    ʾishH3761663 times

  • יְהוּדָ֜הJudah

    yehudahH3063819 times

  • עַל־to

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • אִ֣ישׁ[the] man of

    ʾishH3761663 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֗לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • כִּֽי־for

    ki-H35884482 times

  • קָר֤וֹב[is] close

    karovH7138

  • הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙the king

    hamelekhH44282525 times

  • אֵלַ֔יto me

    ʾelaiH4135510 times

  • וְלָ֤מָּהand <to> why?

    velamahH4100752 times

  • זֶּה֙this

    zehH20881180 times

  • חָרָ֣הhas it burned

    charahH273491 times

  • לְךָ֔to <the> you

    lekha

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • הַדָּבָ֖רthe matter

    hadavarH16971440 times

  • הַזֶּ֑ה<the> this

    hazehH20881180 times

  • הֶאָכ֤וֹל¿ really <to eat>

    heakholH398810 times

  • אָכַ֙לְנוּ֙have we eaten

    ʾakhalnuH398810 times

  • מִן־from

    min-H44801188 times

  • הַמֶּ֔לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH44282525 times

  • אִם־or?

    ʾim-H5181069 times

  • נִשֵּׂ֥אתreally <be taken away>

    nisetH5379

  • נִשָּׂ֖אhas it been taken away

    nisa'H5375656 times

  • לָֽנוּ׃ סby <the> us

    lanu

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

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 5:1

    Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 11:1–3

      Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.

    • Genesis 29:14

      Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,

    • 2 Samuel 19:13

      And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from this time you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

    • Deuteronomy 17:15

      you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not…

  • Through

    2 Samuel 19:12

    You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’

    it leads to

    • Ephesians 5:30

      For we are members of His body.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Samuel 5:1

      Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.

    • Genesis 2:23

      And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”

    • Judges 9:2

      “Please ask all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember that I am your own flesh…

About 2 Samuel

David Mourns the Death of Absalom — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
David Mourns the Death of Absalom — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the 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.