And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I [am] this day king over Israel?
Ver. 22. Shall there any man be put to death this day?] Which is, as it were, a day of my new election and inauguration into the kingdom, and should therefore be auspicated not with bloodshed, but with an act of oblivion.
That I am this day king over Israel?] And so not only may exercise my kingly prerogative in pardoning whom I please, but must in prudence show my readiness so to do: that it may be said of me, as afterwards it was of Julius Caesar, Nihil oblivisci solet praeter iniurias, He is of that happy memory that he never forgetteth anything but injuries.