2 Samuel 14:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

2 SAMUEL CHAPTER 14 Joab suborning a widow of Tekoah by a parable to incline the king's heart to fetch home Absalom, bringeth him to Jerusalem, but not into David's sight, 2 Samuel 14:1-24. Absalom's beauty, hair, and children, 2 Samuel 14:25-27. After two years Joab bringeth, him into the king's presence, 2 Samuel 14:28-33. He desired to see him, but was ashamed to show kindness to one whom God's law and his own conscience obliged him to punish; and wanted a fair pretence, which therefore Joab gave him.

2 Samuel 14:1

1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.