2 Samuel 4

2 Samuel 4:2

Will avenge - If thou persistest in thy injuries and cruel designs against me.

2 Samuel 4:3

Wickedness, &c. - That is, wicked men will do wicked actions, among which this is one, to kill their sovereign lord and king; and therefore if I were so wicked a person as thy courtiers represent me, I should make no conscience of laying violent hands upon thee.

2 Samuel 4:6

Thy voice - He knew his voice, though being at a great distance from him, he could not discern his face. Wept - From the sense of his sin against God, and his base carriage to David. He speaks as one quite overcome with David’s kindness, and as one that relents at the sight of his own folly and ingratitude.

2 Samuel 4:7

More righteous than I - He ingenuously acknowledges David’s integrity, and his own iniquity.

2 Samuel 4:9

The Lord reward thee - Because he thought himself not able to recompense so great a favour, he prays God to recompense it.

2 Samuel 4:12

Unto the hold - Of En - gedi, ver.1, for having had by frequent experience of Saul’s inconstancy, he would trust him no more.