Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.
Ver. 7. Now therefore arise, go forth.] Good counsel, but ill administered: like a good potion ill prepared, or not well sweetened. How much better Melancthon, who when he found on a time Luther overcome by his passions, overcame both him and them by saying,
“ Vince animos, iramque tuam, qui caetera vincis. ”
There will not tarry one with thee.] a They will choose them a ruler that can better rule his passions, and use his great place and power with more sobriety and moderation: they will depose thee, and expose thee to the greatest miseries. And all this Joab bindeth with an oath (but not well), to startle and scare David.
a Non pernoctaturum, sc., ex meo iussu. - Piscat.