2 Samuel 20:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Wallowed, Heb. rolled himself, being in the pangs of death; yet having so much life left as to move himself a little, though not to raise himself up from his place. In blood; in his own blood, which was shed there. All the people, to wit, the soldiers which were upon their march. Stood still; wondering at the spectacle, and inquiring into the author and occasion of it. He removed Amasa out of the highway into the field; perceiving that it both incensed them against Joab, and hindered the king's present service.

2 Samuel 20:12

12 And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.