2 Samuel 14:14

2 Samuel 14:14

12 Therefore the woman said, “Please, let your maidservant speak another word to my lord the king.” And he said, “Say on.”

13 So the woman said: “Why then have you schemed such a thing against ^athe people of God? For the king speaks this thing as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring ^bhis banished one home again.

14 For we ^awill surely die and become like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not ^btake away a life; but He ^cdevises means, so that His banished ones are not¹ expelled from Him.

15 Now therefore, I have come to speak of this thing to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. And your maidservant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his maidservant.

16 For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the ^ainheritance of God.’

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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We - We shall certainly die, both thou, O king, who art therefore obliged to take care of thy successor, Absalom; and Absalom, who, if he do not die by the hand of justice, must shortly die by the necessity of nature: and Amnon too must have died in the common way of all flesh, if Absalom had not cut him off. Respect - So far as to exempt him from this common law of dying. Not expelled - He hath given laws to this purpose, that the man - slayer who is banished should not always continue in banishment, but upon the High - priest's death return to his own city.

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