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David's Just Authority
Commentators explain that David's order to execute the Amalekite was not an abuse of power. As a military commander and a king acknowledged by the man himself, David had the authority in that era to pronounce immediate judgment for a confessed crime of high treason.
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2 Samuel
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Charles Ellicott
On 2 Samuel 1:15
19th Century
Bishop
Fall upon him. —All question of David’s authority to pronounce a capital sentence is here quite out of place. The Amaleki…
John Gill
On 2 Samuel 1:15
17th Century
Pastor
And David called one of the young men
His servants that attended on him:
and said, go near, [and]…
Matthew Henry
On 2 Samuel 1:11–16
17th Century
Minister
David was sincere in his mourning for Saul; and all with him humbled themselves under the hand of God, which was laid so heavily upon Israel by thi…