2 Samuel 13:25
And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And the king said to Absalom, nay, my son, let us not all now go,.... He did not object to the invitation entirely, he was willing some of the family should go, but not all; it seems probable that he…
What Solomon says of the beginning of strife is as true of the beginning of all sin, it is as the letting forth of water; when once the flood-gates are plucked up, an inundation follows; one mischief…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
lest we be chargeable unto thee Lest we be burdensome unto thee. Chargeableis derived from charge, in the now obsolete sense of -a load" or -burden," cp. 1Th 2:9. It is "the first instance history…
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