2 Samuel 14:1

And Joab son of Zeruial knows that the heart of the king [is] on Absalom,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2and Joab sends to Tekoah, and takes a wise woman from there, and says to her, “Please feign yourself a mourner, and now put on garments of mourning, and do not anoint yourself with oil, and you have been as a woman mourning for the dead [for] these many days,

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Cross References

2 Samuel 2:18And there are three sons of Zeruiah there: Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel; and Asahel [is] light on his feet, as one of the roes which [are] in the field,

2 Samuel 18:33And the king trembles, and goes up on the upper chamber of the gate, and weeps, and thus he has said in his going, “My son Absalom! My son! My son Absalom! Oh that I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!”

2 Samuel 19:4and the king has covered his face, indeed, the king cries [with] a loud voice, “My son Absalom! Absalom, my son, my son!”

Proverbs 29:26Many are seeking the face of a ruler, || And the judgment of each [is] from YHWH.

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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