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Your handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.
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A Carefully Crafted Story
Commentators explain that the woman's story is a clever fabrication designed to manipulate David. She intentionally portrays the killing as an unpremeditated fight in a field, which is fundamentally different from Absalom's planned murder of Amnon at a feast. This was a strategy to gain the king's sympathy before he could analyze the differences.
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2 Samuel
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19th Century
Anglican
They two strove together. —The woman represents the fratricide as unpremeditated and without malice. This really made the case ess…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And thy handmaid had two sons Two are observed, that her case might suit with Amnon and Absalom:
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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…
