And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his mule, and fled.
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Gill's Exposition
And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded,.... They smote him, and killed him, when he gave the word:
then all the king's sons arose; from the feast, imagining they were…
Barnes' Notes
Upon his mule - So in 1Ki 1:33, 1Ki 1:38 the mule is the royal animal on which David himself rides. In 2Sa 18:9 Absalom rides upon a mule.
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…
Cambridge Bible
did unto Amnon, &c. Though the princes were attended by a numerous retinue (2Sa 13:13), the blow was struck so suddenly and unexpectedly, that no resistance was possible, and Absalom escaped without…
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