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Absalom Ab'salom Clear Heart Inclined Joab Jo'ab King's Knoweth Longed Perceived Towards Turning Zeruiah Zeru'iah Zeruial
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14:1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's {a} heart [was] toward Absalom.
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(a) That the king favoured him.
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14:1 Was towards - He desired to see him, but was ashamed to shew kindness to one whom God's law and his own conscience obliged him to punish; he wanted therefore a fair pretence, which therefore Joab gave him.
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14:1-20 We may notice here, how this widow pleads God's mercy, and his clemency toward poor guilty sinners. The state of sinners is a state of banishment from God. God pardons none to the dishonour of his law and justice, nor any who are impenitent; nor to the encouragement of crimes, or the hurt of others.
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Absalom Ab'salom Clear Heart Inclined Joab Jo'ab King's Longed Perceived Towards Turning Zeruiah Zeru'iah
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Absalom Ab'salom Clear Heart Inclined Joab Jo'ab King's Longed Perceived Towards Turning Zeruiah Zeru'iah
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