2 Samuel 13:39

the soul of king David. The Aramaean reads "the soul (nephesh) of the king". Compare the omission of nephesh in Psalms 16:2.

Related Commentaries of 2 Samuel 13:39

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Longed to go forth - Rather, “longed after Absalom,” literally, was consumed in going forth, with a sense of disappointed hope.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 13. Amnon, Tamar, and Absalom (J). 2 Samuel 13:1-22 . Amnon, David's eldest son, forces his half-sister, Tamar, the full sister of Ab...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead. David longed to go forth unt...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead. The soul of king David...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Crime of Amnon, and Absalom's Vengeance This narrative and the history of Absalom's rebellion is omitted in Chronicles.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The soul of King David. — The words, “the soul of,” are not in the original, and the most opposite interpretations have been given of the rest of t...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XVIII. ABSALOM BANISHED AND BROUGHT BACK 2 Samuel 13:38-39 - 2 Samuel 14:1-33 . GESHUR, to which Absalom fled after the murder of Am...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Absalom Flees While David Mourns 2 Samuel 13:28-39 For two years Absalom nursed his anger. Time did not alter his resolve, though it lulled to...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The story of Amnon's sin is of a sin committed by a child of David similar to his own. When the story was told to him, we are told that he was wroth....
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(34) But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hi...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

REFLECTIONS THINK, Reader, in the perusal of the history of Amnon's gratified lust, how wretched the man that is given up for a prey to his own corr...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And [the soul of] King David longed to go forth unto Absalom ,.... In like manner it is supplied and paraphrased in the Targum, because the word ren...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And [the soul of] king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead. Ver. 39. And the soul of...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The soul of King David longed to go forth to Absalom To visit him, or to send for him. What amazing weakness was this! At first he could not find i...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

WICKEDNESS INVADING DAVID'S FAMILY David did not have to wait long to see the sad governmental results of his sin begin to be manifest in his own...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Amnon's Death; Absalom's Flight. B. C. 1032....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

To go forth unto Absalom, to wit, to visit him, or to send for him. And thus this word the soul is here understood, partly from the Hebrew verb,...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 2 Samuel 13:1 . “Absalom” and “Tamar” were the children of Maacha, and “Amnon” was David’s eldest son by Ahi...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 13:2 . He fell sick for his sister Tamar. Most young men who have come to ruin, have followed some blind and impetuous passion. 2 Samue...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 13:1 After this. This phrase, as we have seen on 2 Samuel 10:1 , has little chronological force, but the date of the...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Absalom's Revenge
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And the soul of King David longed to go forth unto Absalom, literally, "And held back, refrained, David, the king, from going forth to Absalom"; for...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 12:23 ; Deuteronomy 28:32 ; Genesis 24:67 ; Genesis 31:30 ; Genesis 37:35 ; Genesis 38:12 ; Philippians 2:26 ; Psalms 119:20 ; Psal...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Go forth — And could not he recalled, to visit him, or to send for him. What amazing weakness was this! At first he could not find in his heart, to...

³⁹ And the soul of king David longedj to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

Related Commentaries of 2 Samuel 13:39

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

2 Samuel 13:39