撒母耳记下 13:30

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他們還在路上的時候，有消息傳到大衛那裡，說：“押沙龍殺了王所有的兒子，沒有剩下一個。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 们 还 在 路 上 ， 有 风 声 传 到 大 卫 那 里 ， 说 ： 押 沙 龙 将 王 的 众 子 都 杀 了 ， 没 有 留 下 一 个 。

Contextual Overview

³⁰ While the king's sons were on their way, the news came to David, "Absalom has killed all of the king's sons! Not one of them is left alive!" ³¹ King David tore his clothes and lay on the ground to show his sadness. All his servants standing nearby tore their clothes also. ³² Jonadab son of Shimeah, David's brother, said to David, "Don't think all the young men, your sons, are killed. No, only Amnon is dead! Absalom has planned this ever since Amnon forced his sister Tamar to have sexual relations with him. ³³ My master and king, don't think that all of the king's sons are dead. Only Amnon is dead!" ³⁴ In the meantime Absalom had run away. A guard standing on the city wall saw many people coming from the other side of the hill. ³⁵ So Jonadab said to King David, "Look, I was right! The king's sons are coming!" ³⁶ As soon as Jonadab had said this, the king's sons arrived, crying loudly. David and all his servants began crying also. ³⁷ David cried for his son every day. But Absalom ran away to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. ³⁸ After Absalom ran away to Geshur, he stayed there for three years. ³⁹ When King David got over Amnon's death, he missed Absalom greatly.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Judges 11:35 - rent his clothes

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass while they were in the way,.... On their road homewards, before they got to Jerusalem:

that tidings came to David; perhaps brought by one who was at the entertainment, who upon seeing Amnon smitten, immediately rose up and fled with the news of it to David:

saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left; which he might suppose was the design of Absalom, and was done before that time; however, so it was ordered in Providence, that David, that rejoiced at the news of the death of Uriah, might be terrified with the tidings of the death of all his sons; and for a while it was as if it was really so, which occasioned the following behaviour in him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 13:30. Absalom hath slain all the king's sons — Fame never lessens but always magnifies a fact. Report, contrary to the nature of all other things, gains strength by going.

Virgil has given, in his best manner, a fine personification of Fame or Evil Report. - AEN. iv., 173.

Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes;

Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum,

Mobilitate viget, viresque adquirit eundo, c.

"Now Fame, tremendous fiend! without delay,

Through Libyan cities took her rapid way

Fame, the swift plague, that every moment grows,

And gains new strength and vigour as she goes," &c.