Access your personal insights across all your devices.
Don't have an account? Create yours
Create Account
Synchronize your bookmarks and study history.
Already have an account? Sign in
2 Samuel 1:11 | Matthew Henry's Commentary
Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him: — 2 Samuel 1:11
Source Coverage: 2 Samuel 1:11-16
David was sincere in his mourning for Saul; and all with him humbled themselves under the hand of God, laid so heavily upon Israel by this defeat. The man who brought the tidings, David put to death, as a murderer of his prince. David herein did not do unjustly; the Amalekite confessed the crime. If he did as he said, he deserved to die for treason; and his lying to David, if indeed it were a lie, proved, as sooner or later that sin will prove, lying against himself. Hereby David
showed himself zealous for public justice, without regard to his own private interest.
David was sincere in his mourning for Saul; and all with him humbled themselves under the hand of God, laid so heavily upon Israel by this defeat. The man who brought the tidings, David put to death, as a murderer of his prince. David herein did not do unjustly; the Amalekite confessed the crime. If he did as he said, he deserved to die for treason; and his lying to David, if indeed it were a lie, proved, as sooner or later that sin will prove, lying against himself. Hereby David
showed himself zealous for public justice, without regard to his own private interest.