2 Samuel 15:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

i.e. Worship him by the offering of sacrifices of thanksgiving to God, for restoring me to the place of his presence and service, and to my father's favour. But why should not this service have been performed at Zion, or at Gibeon? Here was some ground of suspicion; but God blinded David's eyes, that he might bring upon David and upon Absalom the judgments which they deserved, and he designed.