So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither [have we] inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.
Ver. 16. The people answered the king, saying] Here that proverb is exemplified, "Grievous words stir up wrath." Pro 15:1 Rehoboam found also that strife is far easier stirred than stinted: and that the people is a most dangerous and heady water when once it is out.
What portion have we in David?] So soon are all his good turns done for them, and their fathers afore them, forgotten. Perraro grati reperiuntur. This absurd language they had learned of Saul the castaway and Sheba the traitor.
To your tents, O Israel.] Away to your own homes and houses: for why should we enslave ourselves to such a tyrant?
Now see to thine own house, David.] See to thine own affairs, and we will see to ours: and provide us of a king that will better deport himself toward us than this fatuellus.
So Israel departed unto their tents.] To Ohalehem and to Elohehem, their tents and their gods, resolving never to subject themselves to Rehoboam, or any of his posterity. a
a Broughton on Daniel.