2 Samuel 13:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

He pressed him; pretending great desire of his presence there, to prevent any jealousies, which otherwise he thought would arise in the breast of a king so wise and experienced, and under the expectation of God's dreadful judgments to be inflicted upon his family. Blessed him; dismissed him with thanks for his kindness, and with his fatherly blessing\'b7

2 Samuel 13:25

25 And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.