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The woman said, Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? for in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.
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The Wise Woman's Pivot
Commentators explain that this verse marks the turning point where the woman reveals her true purpose. Having secured a merciful judgment from David for her fictional son, she now applies his own logic to his situation with Absalom. Scholars note she skillfully shows the king that by his own words, he is 'guilty' for not bringing his own banished son home.
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2 Samuel
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19th Century
Anglican
Against the people of God. —This phrase, according to constant usage, can only mean Israel. The woman finds that the time…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Wherefore then have you thought such a thing against the people of God ? &c.] That th…
Presbyterian
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…
