2 Samuel 12:5; 2 Samuel 12:6; 2 Samuel 16:4; Isaiah 11:3; Isaiah 11:4; Job 29:16; Proverbs 18:13
I will give charge ... - Indirectly granting her petition, and assenting that her son’s life should be spared.
2 Samuel 14. The Return of Absalom (J). 2 Samuel 14:1-8 . Joab perceives the king's longing for his son (p. 67), and sends to him a woman of T...
And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee. I will give charge concerning thee - This would not do,...
And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee. No JFB commentary on this verse.
Absalom's Return from Geshur After waiting for two years, Absalom forces Joab to use his influence to bring about a reconciliation between him and...
CHAPTER XVIII. ABSALOM BANISHED AND BROUGHT BACK 2 Samuel 13:38-39 - 2 Samuel 14:1-33 . GESHUR, to which Absalom fled after the murder of Am...
Joab's Plea for the Fugitive 2 Samuel 14:1-17 Joab had ends of his own to serve in securing the return of Absalom. Were the two sworn together...
Opinions widely differ over why Joab set himself to bring Absalom back. The most probable reason- is that he "perceived that the king's heart was tow...
(2) And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning...
And the king said to the woman, go to thine house ,.... Go home and make thyself easy: and I will give charge concerning thee ; intimating that he...
And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee. Ver. 8. Go to thine house. ] Suitors are to be timely...
The king said, Go to thy house , &c. Notwithstanding the forementioned dissimilarity, the case was too like his own to suffer David to be unmove...
David's concern for Absalom became known to Joab. Joab was a man not too concerned about truth and justice, but rather about the outward prosperity o...
Joab's Stratagem in Absalom's Favour; The Art of Joab. B. C. 1029....
That thy cause may be justly and truly examined, and thy son preserved from their unjust and malicious proceedings.
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES.— 2 Samuel 14:1 . “Now Joab,” etc. Most commentators attribute Joab’s action in this matter to motives of self-in...
2 Samuel 14:2 . Tekoah; a city of Judah, twelve miles south of Jerusalem. 2 Chronicles 11:6 . 2 Samuel 14:6 . The one smote the other, probab...
And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman. The parable of the woman of Tekoa The contrast between this parable and the one preceding it is ve...
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 14:1 The king's heart was toward Absalom. Again there is a diversity of view as to the right rendering. The prepositi...
The Wise Woman of Tekoah
And the king said unto the woman, in granting her request, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee, to protect her son from the p...
8 And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.