All the people. This refers to the troops that Amasa had been leading to Jerusalem. They were irresolute about what to do, and the halt at A…

The people stood still. —These were probably the very people whom Amasa had just been gathering from Judah and Benjamin. Whoever t…

And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway
By which it seems, that though the wound was mortal, and of …

Joab barbarously murdered Amasa. The more premeditation there is in a sin, the worse it is. Joab contentedly sacrificed the interests of both the k…