And now the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, `Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew'; and so they would destroy the heir also. Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant upon the face of the earth."
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The whole family... — This indicates that all the king’s sons, and the entire court, were against Absalom. The knowledge of this opposition …
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
We will destroy the heir also. —The woman puts this into the mouth of the family, because this would be the result of what they pr…
John Gill
JohnGill
And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid ,
&c.] Who had sheltered her son, that slew his brothe…
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
We may notice here, how this widow pleads God's mercy and His clemency toward poor, guilty sinners. The state of sinners is a state of banishment f…
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Albert Barnes
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