2 Samuel 13:37 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

David mourned for his son every day Either for the murder of Amnon, or for Absalom, who was lost as to any comfort he could have from him. “Thus did God, by withdrawing his restraining grace from Amnon, and leaving him a prey to his own passions, raise up evil to David out of his own house; a daughter ravished by her own brother; that brother murdered by another brother; and that other in exile on that account; and soon to perish by a fate yet more deplorable, had it not been more deserved! And now began another and more dreadful prophecy of Nathan to be fulfilled upon David, before his eyes: the sword was now first brought in upon his house, attended with this dreadful assurance of never departing from it.” Delaney.

2 Samuel 13:37

37 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud,i king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.