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2 Samuël 13:30
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En toen zij nog op den weg waren, kwam het gerucht tot David, dat Absalom al de kinderen des konings verslagen had, zodat er niet n van hen was overgebleven.
En het geschiedde, als zij op den weg waren, dat het gerucht tot David kwam, dat men zeide: Absalom heeft al de zonen des konings geslagen, en er is niet een van hen overgelaten.
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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.
