Then he sent for Joab to send him to the king, but Joab refused to come to him. So Absalom sent a second time, but Joab still would not come.
Three years Absalom had been an exile from his father-in-law, and now two years a prisoner at large in his own house, and, in both, better dealt with than he deserved; yet his spirit was still unhumbled, his pride unmortified, and, instead of being thankful that his life is spared, he thinks himself sorely wronged that he is not restored to all his places at court.
Commenting on 2 Samuel 14:28-33
Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the king,.... To introduce him into his presence, being uneasy to be thus confined at his own house, and not suffered to come to court: but he would not come to him; knowing the king's mind, and being unwilling to disoblige him by a troublesome solicitation: and when he sent again the second time, he...
2Sa 14:28-30 After Absalom had sat for two whole years in his house at Jerusalem without seeing the king’s face, he sent to Joab that he might obtain for him the king’s full forgiveness. But as Joab would not come to him, even after he had sent for him twice, Absalom commanded his servants to set fire to one of Joab’s fields which adjoined his...
Commenting on 2 Samuel 14:28-30