2 Samuel 14:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments

Hear — For I know the king is so wise and just, that I assure myself of audience and acceptation. Deliver — To grant my request concerning my son, and consequently the peoples petition concerning Absalom. My son — Implying that her life was bound up in the life of her son, and that she could not outlive his death; (and supposing that it might be David's case also, and would therefore touch him in a tender part, though it were not proper to say it expressly:) and thereby suggesting, that the safety and comfort of the people of Israel, depended upon Absalom's restitution. Inheritance — That is, out of that land which God gave to his people to be their inheritance, and in which alone God hath settled the place of his presence and worship: whereby she intimates the danger of Absalom's living in a state of separation from God, and his house, amongst idolaters.

2 Samuel 14:16

16 For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.