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2 Samuel 14:16

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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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

2 Samuel 14:1-20

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.

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