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Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.
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A Story for the King
Commentators agree that the woman's story is a carefully crafted parable aimed directly at David. The "whole family" rising against her son represents the royal court and David's other sons who were pressuring him to punish Absalom. This story was designed to mirror David's own dilemma and force him to see it from a different perspective.
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2 Samuel
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Samuel 14:7
18th Century
Theologian
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
On 2 Samuel 14:7
19th Century
Bishop
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
On 2 Samuel 14:7
17th Century
Pastor
And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid ,
&c.] Who had sheltered her son, that slew his brothe…
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Matthew Henry
On 2 Samuel 14:1–20
17th Century
Minister
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…