Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.
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Gill's Exposition
Do therefore according to thy wisdom,.... Which though young began to appear in him, even in the life of his father; he therefore exhorts him to use the wisdom he had, and take the first and fittest…
Barnes' Notes
His hoar head - Joab, though the nephew of David, was probably not very greatly his junior, David being the youngest of the family, and Zeruiah, as is most likely, one of the eldest.
Adam Clarke
Let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace - It would have been an insult to justice not to have taken the life of Joab. David was culpable in delaying it so long; but probably the…
Cambridge Bible
Do therefore according to thy wisdom Compare 1Ki 2:9. The wisdom to which David in both cases alludes is a politic method of bringing these men to do something for which they might be put to death.…
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