The man gives a remarkable incidental testimony to David’s sagacity and insight (Compare to 2 Samuel 14:19), and to Joab’s known unscru…

Against my own life. —The English, like the Vulgate, here follows the margin of the Hebrew; the Septuagint, in most manuscripts, f…

Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against my own
life
Or "soul"; he should no…

Let young people look upon Absalom, hanging on a tree, accursed, forsaken by heaven and earth; there let them read the Lord's abhorrence of rebelli…