2 Samuel 14:1

Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.

In Context

2And Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her: 'I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, I pray thee, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead;

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Cross References

2 Samuel 2:18And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel; and Asahel was as light of foot as one of the roes that are in the field.

2 Samuel 18:33(19-1) And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept; and as he went, thus he said: 'O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!'

2 Samuel 19:4(19-5) And the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice: 'O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!'

Proverbs 29:26Many seek the ruler's favour; but a man's judgment cometh from the LORD.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 14:1

How Absalom threw himself out of his royal father's protection and favour we read in the foregoing chapter, which left him an exile, outlawed, and proscribed; in this chapter we have the arts that were used to bring him and his father together again, and how, at last, it was done, which is here recorded to show the folly of David in sparing him and indulging him in his wickedness, for which he was soon after severely corrected by his unnatural rebellion. I. Joab, by bringing a feigned issue (as the lawyers speak)… Read the whole commentary →

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