2 Samuel 19:28

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For hele min fars hus hadde ikke annet å vente av min herre kongen enn død, og dog gav du din tjener plass blandt dem som eter ved ditt bord; hvad rett har jeg da mere å kreve, og hvad mere har jeg å rope til kongen om?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

were: Genesis 32:10

dead men: Heb. men of death, 1 Samuel 26:16

didst thou: 2 Samuel 9:7, 2 Samuel 9:8, 2 Samuel 9:10, 2 Samuel 9:13

to cry: 2 Kings 8:3

Reciprocal: Ruth 2:10 - Why have 1 Samuel 20:31 - shall surely die 1 Kings 2:7 - eat Job 2:10 - shall we receive Proverbs 27:10 - own Luke 22:30 - eat

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For all [of] my, father's house were but dead men before my lord the king,.... Or "men of death" m; worthy of death, not on account of Saul's persecution, for which his family did not deserve to suffer; rather for the attempt of Ishbosheth to get the kingdom from him, which might be deemed treason, and so the family was tainted for it; though the sense may be only this, that their lives lay at his mercy, and that if he had dealt with rigour and severity towards them, as was usual for princes to do towards the family of their predecessors, who had any claim to the kingdom, put them to death, this would have been their case:

yet didst thou set thy servant among them that eat at thine own table; which was showing him great kindness, and doing him great honour:

what right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king? to ask any favour of him, or make any complaint to him.

m אנשי מות "viris mortis", Montanus.