Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Samuel 14:23
So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
So Joab arose and went to Geshur,…. Where Absalom was with his grandfather, the king of the place; see 2Sa 13:37;
and brought Absalom to Jerusalem; from thence, which, according to Bunting t, was the distance of eighty eight miles from it.
t Travels, &c. p 146, 148.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
2Sa 14:23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
Ver. 23. And brought Absalom to Jerusalem. ] Where, though he escaped the lash of the law, yet not the furies of his own conscience – as little as did Cain after his fratricide, or Orestes and Nero after their matricide – unless he were master of his conscience, and had muzzled it. Joab, by his Tekoitess, had sought to salve the business – which Papinian, the great lawyer, would not be drawn to do for Caracalla (who had slain his brother Geta) though he died for it – and now he had brought him to Jerusalem, who will soon show himseff to be flagellum Reip, flabellum seditionis, a desperate incendiary, a very viper.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Geshur: 2Sa 3:3, 2Sa 13:37
Reciprocal: 1Sa 27:8 – the Geshurites 2Sa 13:38 – General 2Sa 15:8 – Geshur 1Ch 3:2 – Geshur
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Sa 14:23. So Joab went, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem Well pleased, we may be assured, to be at once the messenger of his princes mercy to the heir apparent of his crown, and the instrument of their reconciliation: which could not fail to secure him a present fund of favour with the father, and an equal fund in reversion with the son. Delaney. St. Ambrose mentions this as an instance of the wonderful affection which parents have to their children, though degenerate and wicked; by which we may raise our thoughts to form some, although a very inadequate idea, of the inconceivable love of our heavenly Father toward the human race, his offspring, though fallen and depraved.