2 Samuel 14:1

And Joab the son of Zeruiah knew that the heart of the king was toward Absalom.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 took thence a cunning woman, and said to her, Mourn, I pray thee, and put on mourning apparel, and anoint thee not with oil, and thou shalt be as a woman mourning for one that is dead thus for many days.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 2:18And there were there the three sons of Zeruiah, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was swift in his feet as a roe in the field.

2 Samuel 19:4And the people stole away that day to go into the city, as people steal away when they are ashamed as they flee in the battle.

Proverbs 29:26Many wait on the favor of rulers; 1 But justice comes to a man from the Lord. 1

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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