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The Soldier's Shrewd Insight
Commentators highlight the soldier's remarkable wisdom. He correctly assessed that King David would inevitably discover the truth, stating, "there is no matter hid from the king." More shrewdly, he knew that the unscrupulous Joab, who was tempting him, would be the first to turn against him to save his own reputation.
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Samuel 18:13
18th Century
Theologian
The man gives a remarkable incidental testimony to David’s sagacity and insight (Compare to 2 Samuel 14:19), and to Joab’s known unscru…
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Samuel 18:13
19th Century
Bishop
Against my own life. —The English, like the Vulgate, here follows the margin of the Hebrew; the Septuagint, in most manuscripts, f…
John Gill
On 2 Samuel 18:13
17th Century
Pastor
Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against my own
life
Or "soul"; he should no…
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Matthew Henry
On 2 Samuel 18:9–18
17th Century
Minister
Let young people look upon Absalom, hanging on a tree, accursed, forsaken by heaven and earth; there let them read the Lord's abhorrence of rebelli…