2 Samuel 19:28
For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
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Gill's Exposition
For all of my, father's house were but dead men before my lord the king,.... Or "men of death" (m); worthy of death, not on account of Saul's persecution, for which his family did not deserve to…
The day of David's return was a day of bringing to remembrance, a day of account, in which what had passed in his flight was called over again; among other things, after the case of Shimei, that of…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
were but dead men For David might have put them all to death. Possibly there is an allusion to the surrender of Saul's sons to the Gibeonites (ch. 2Sa 21:6-9).
what right, &c. Since all David's…
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