2 Samuel 19

David brought his will to God (2 Samuel 15:26): Here am I, let him do to me as seems good to him. And after he resigned his will, he had his will; God brought him back to the Ark, and settled him again in his throne (2 Samuel 19). Many a parent that has had a dear child sick, wh…

As rooted malice argues a stronger hatred than a sudden though more violent passion, so we must measure our love not by a violent motion of it now and then, but by the depth of the root and the constancy of its actings. Because David was so passionately moved for Absalom, Joab c…

So Abraham's steward puts up his request to God, before he would put the business he came upon in execution (Genesis 24:12). David frequently in particular cases (1 Samuel 23:9; 2 Samuel 2:1; 2 Samuel 19:23). God only does what he pleases in heaven and in earth; he only can bles…

Nor can it be doubted, that this divine intimation, which he received in his individual and private capacity, was intended generally for the confirmation of all the godly. Jesus is called the Lord's Christ, because he was anointed It is scarcely necessary to remind the reader, t…

So long as any splendor of royalty continued in the family of David, the kings were wont to be called χριστοί, anointed. Every reader of the Bible is familiar with the phrase, the Lord's anointed, as applied to David and his successors, (2 Samuel 19:21; Lamentations 4:20.) — Ed.…

And it comprises somewhat more than merely to die; it expresses also to find out and experience, what is in death. And [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], is sometimes rendered by [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], to know (2 Samuel 19:36), and sometimes the substantive by [⟨in non-Latin alphabe…

The Galatians were willing to pluck out their eyes of late for Paul, and now their affection to him being soured, they look on him as an enemy, for he tells them the necessary and lovely truth (Gal. 4:15-16). 2. The heart is a thing that may be bowed (2 Sam. 19:14); the metaphor…

By all these proofs it appears that if a master bids his servant come, go, do this, or that, he must obey. The contrary to this is the highest degree of disobedience, as when servants refuse to be at their master's command, and to do what they charge them to do: as Ziba, who bei…

Thus all earthly enjoyments have but some time (as foods) when they are in season but the graciousness of God is always sweet, the taste of that is never out of season. See how old age spoils the relish of outward delights in the example of Barzillai (2 Samuel 19:35). But it mak…

To our persons: (Acts 7:60) Stephen, when they stoned him, he said, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge: though they had done him so great an injury, as to deprive him of his life and service; yet, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. So to our names: When Shimei came bark…

Thus Joab very sharply reproved David, when he so immoderately mourned for Absalom. And I think it is one of the roundest checks that ever a dutiful subject gave to his prince; but if he had not taken that very time, the case had been desperate, and his people had all forsaken h…

Persons of quality and honor that are used to, and deserve civility, will not bear such provoking words, nor take them but on the point of their rapier, and return it to the giver's throat. Great sins are committed from such beginnings; therefore Solomon tells us (Proverbs 15:1)…

Lastly, it easily falls under the evidence of an admonition administered so far as it reaches the evil of his sin, though perhaps unseasonably or disorderly administered, neither out of that love it should, nor in that prudent manner it ought to be: If yet he perceives that it h…

The Scripture compares the multitude of people to waters, the great ones of the world sit upon these waters; as the ship floates upon the waves, so do their honours upon the breath and favor of the multitude; and bow long is he like to sit that is carried upon a wave? one while…

16. We are called to be dead to honorable birth, blood, and noble families, when princes are filled with contempt, and those that were clothed in scarlet embrace the dunghill (Lamentations 5:12; Isaiah 40:23, 20). 17. And we must be dead to the vigorousness of youth, when we rea…

(1) In the imputation of sin, when the person guilty of it, is so judged and reckoned a sinner, as to be dealt withall accordingly. This imputation Shimei deprecated, 2 Samuel 19:19. He said unto the king, Let not my Lord impute iniquity unto me, ( the word used in the expressio…

This expression of the not imputing of sin is found in such scriptures as these (Romans 4:8, Psalm 32:2, 2 Corinthians 5:19), in which places the Holy Ghost speaks of justification. In like sort is the word used (2 Samuel 19:19), and in that of Paul (2 Timothy 4:16), where he pr…

But God's name is taken in vain, when an oath made of things lawful and possible is not kept. David, at the humble request of Shimei, (who had before cursed him) pardons his fault for the time, and swears to him that he should not die (2 Samuel 19:23). David made conscience of t…

The reason was, because being newly invested in the kingdom, his adversaries were strong, and himself weak, even by his own confession, and therefore not able at the first, to redress the injury done to him. But when he had once established himself, then he does not only begin (…