8<\/strong>. I will give charge<\/em>, &c.] Implying that her son should be protected. The king could reasonably grant a free pardon, as it was a case of manslaughter and not a premeditated murder.<\/p>\n I will give charge … – <\/B>Indirectly granting her petition, and assenting that her sons life should be spared.<\/P><\/p>\n Verse 8<\/span>. I will give charge concerning thee.<\/B><\/I>] This would not do, it was too distant; and she could not by it bring her business to a conclusion: so she proceeds: –<\/P> <\/p>\n That thy cause may be justly and truly examined, and thy son preserved from their unjust and malicious proceedings. <\/P> <\/p>\n 2-21. And Joab sent to Tekoah, andfetched thence a wise woman<\/B>The king was strongly attached toAbsalom; and having now got over his sorrow for the violent death ofAmnon, he was desirous of again enjoying the society of his favoriteson, who had now been three long years absent. But a dread of publicopinion and a regard to the public interests made him hesitate aboutrecalling or pardoning his guilty son; and Joab, whose discerningmind perceived this struggle between parental affection and royalduty, devised a plan for relieving the scruples, and, at the sametime, gratifying the wishes, of his master. Having procured acountrywoman of superior intelligence and address, he directed her toseek an audience of the king, and by soliciting his royalinterposition in the settlement of a domestic grievance, convincedhim that the life of a murderer might in some cases be saved. Tekoahwas about twelve miles south of Jerusalem, and six south ofBeth-lehem; and the design of bringing a woman from such a distancewas to prevent either the petitioner being known, or the truth of herstory easily investigated. Her speech was in the form of aparablethe circumstancesthe languagethe mannerwell suitedto the occasion, represented a case as like David’s as it was policyto make it, so as not to be prematurely discovered. Having got theking pledged, she avowed it to be her design to satisfy the royalconscience, that in pardoning Absalom he was doing nothing more thanhe would have done in the case of a stranger, where there could be noimputation of partiality. The device succeeded; David traced itsorigin to Joab; and, secretly pleased at obtaining the judgment ofthat rough, but generally sound-thinking soldier, he commissioned himto repair to Geshur and bring home his exiled son.<\/P><\/p>\n And the king said to the woman, go to thine house<\/strong>,…. Go home and make thyself easy:<\/p>\n and I will give charge concerning thee<\/strong>; intimating that he would inquire into her case; and if it was as she had represented it, he would give orders that she should not be disturbed, or be obliged to deliver up her son, and that he should be safe from those that sought his life.<\/p>\n 2Sa 14:8 And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.<\/p>\n Ver. 8. Go to thine house.<\/strong> ] Suitors are to be timely dismissed, when they cannot be presently despatched, as Jethro adviseth. Exo 18:13-23 <\/p>\n I will give: 2Sa 12:5, 2Sa 12:6, 2Sa 16:4, Job 29:16, Pro 18:13, Isa 11:3, Isa 11:4<\/p>\n 2Sa 14:8. The king said, Go to thy house, &c. Notwithstanding the forementioned dissimilarity, the case was too like his own to suffer David to be unmoved; he soon felt her distress, and told her she might return to her house, and leave the care of her business to him; he would give proper directions about it. But not having yet obtained what she wanted, in seeming solicitude for her son, she added, O king, the iniquity be on me, and the king and his throne be guiltless She means, either, 1st, If she had pressed the king to any thing in itself unjust, or in any way had misinformed him, or misrepresented the state of the case, she wished all the guilt of that iniquity, or misrepresentation, might fall upon her own head, and upon her family. Or, 2d, If, through the kings forgetfulness, or neglect of her just cause, her adversaries should prevail and destroy her son, her desire was, that God would not lay it to the kings charge, but rather to her and hers, so that the king might be exempted thereby. By her words, thus taken, she insinuates that such an omission would bring guilt upon him; and yet most decently so expresses herself as not to seem to blame or threaten him with any punishment from God on that account. This sense seems best to agree with Davids answer, which shows that she desired some further assurances of the kings care.<\/p>\n And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee. 8. I will give charge, &c.] Implying that her son should be protected. The king could reasonably grant a free pardon, as it was a case of manslaughter and not a premeditated murder. 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