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2 Samuelova 15:3
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thy matters: Numbers 16:3, Numbers 16:13, Numbers 16:14, Psalms 12:2, Daniel 11:21, 2 Peter 2:10
there is: etc. or, none will hear thee from the king downward, 2 Samuel 8:15, Exodus 20:12, Exodus 21:17, Proverbs 30:11, Proverbs 30:17, Ezekiel 22:7, Matthew 15:4, Acts 23:5, 1 Peter 2:17
Reciprocal: Exodus 18:16 - a matter 1 Kings 12:7 - speak good Psalms 55:3 - for they Psalms 109:2 - the mouth
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Absalom said unto him,.... After some further talk, and finding he had a suit at law to bring on, and either seeing it drawn up in writing, or hearing his account of it, at once declared, without hearing the other party:
see, thy matters [are] good and right; thy cause is a good cause, and if it could be heard by proper persons there is no doubt but things would go on thy side, and thou wouldest carry thy cause:
but [there is] no man [deputed] of the king to hear thee; the king is grown old himself and his sons are negligent, and do not attend to business, and there are none besides them appointed to hear causes; and he suggested, as appears by what follows, that he was not in commission, but if he was, or should he appointed a judge, he would attend to business, and people should not go away after this manner, without having justice administered unto them,
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
To flatter each man by pronouncing a favorable verdict in his case, to excite a sense of grievance and discontent by censuring the king for remissness in trying the causes brought before him by his subjects, and to suggest a sure and easy remedy for all such grievances, namely, to make Absalom king; all this, coupled with great affability and courtesy, which his personal beauty and high rank made all the more effective, were the arts by which Absalom worked his way into favor with the people, who were light and fickle as himself.
