2 Samuel 14:16
For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
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Gill's Exposition
For the king will hear,.... She was fully persuaded of it, as now he had heard her:
to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the…
Here is, I. Joab's design to get Absalom recalled out of banishment, his crime pardoned, and his attainder reversed, Sa2 14:1. Joab made himself very busy in this affair. 1. As a courtier that was…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
the inheritance of God The nation of Israel. Cp. 1Sa 26:19; Deu 32:9.