Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Unable to get to the bottom of the story, and perhaps unwilling to make an enemy of Ziba, David compromised the matter by dividing the land, thus partially revoking his hasty sentence II Samuel 16:4. We still see the impatient temper of David.
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