2 Samuel 14:10 (BSB)
“If anyone speaks to you,” said the king, “bring him to me, and he will not trouble you again!”
From 2 Samuel 14. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on 2 Samuel 14:10
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on 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 studious, by all ways possible, to ingratiate himself with his prince and improve his interest in his favour: He perceived that the king's heart was towards Absalom, and that, the...
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on 2 Samuel 14:10: And the king said, whoever saith ought unto thee,.... Demanding her to deliver up her son to justice, and reproaching her for not doing it: bring him to me; give him in charge to a proper officer to be brought before me, and I shall chastise him for it: and he shall not touch thee any more; give her any further trouble, by words or deeds.
- Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on 2 Samuel 14:10: Whosoever saith aught unto thee - Neither did this bring the matter to such a bearing that she could come to her conclusion, which was, to get the king pledged by a solemn promise that all proceedings relative to the case should be stopped.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on 2 Samuel 14:8-10: 2Sa 14:8-10 The plan succeeded. The king replied to the woman, “Go home, I will give charge concerning thee,” i.e., I will give the necessary commands that thy son may not be slain by the avenger of blood. This declaration on the part of the king was perfectly just.