So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
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So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
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Passages linked to 2 Samuel 14:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Samuel 3:3 and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
- 2 Samuel 13:37-38 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. David mourned for his son every day. So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Sa 14:23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur,…
2Sa 14:23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
Ver. 23. And brought Absalom to Jerusalem.] Where, though he escaped the lash of the law, yet not the furies of his own conscience - as little as did Cain after his fratricide, or Orestes and Nero after their matricide - unless he were master of his conscience, and had muzzled it. Joab, by his Tekoitess, had sought to salve the business - which Papinian, the great lawyer, would not be drawn to do for Caracalla (who had slain his brother Geta) though he died for it - and now he had brought him to Jerusalem, who will soon show himseff to be flagellum Reip, flabellum seditionis, a desperate incendiary, a very viper.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain So Joab arose and went to Geshur,.... Where Absalom…
So Joab arose and went to Geshur,.... Where Absalom was with his grandfather, the king of the place; see Sa2 13:37,
and brought Absalom to Jerusalem; from thence, which, according to Bunting (t), was the distance of eighty eight miles from it.
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(t) Travels, &c. p 146, 148.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 2Sa 14:23. So Joab went, and brought Absalom to…
2Sa 14:23. So Joab went, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem — “Well pleased, we may be assured, to be at once the messenger of his prince’s mercy to the heir apparent of his crown, and the instrument of their reconciliation: which could not fail to secure him a present fund of favour with the father, and an equal fund in reversion with the son.” — Delaney. St. Ambrose mentions this as an instance of the wonderful affection which parents have to their children, though degenerate and wicked; by which we may raise our thoughts to form some, although a very inadequate idea, of the inconceivable love of our heavenly Father toward the human race, his offspring, though fallen and depraved.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 but he may not see my face ... the…
but he may not see my face ... the king's face
Here the word "face" refers to the king himself. AT: "but he may not see me ... the king" (See: Synecdoche)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 14:23 Geshur: See 13:37-38.
14:23 Geshur: See 13:37-38.
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