THEOSIS2 Kingdoms (2 Samuel) 18:13Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Yea and if I should have acted boldly against my own life, this could not have been hid from the king, and wouldst thou have stood by me?
אֽוֹ־עָשִׂ֤יתִי בנפשו בְנַפְשִׁי֙ שֶׁ֔קֶר וְכָל־דָּבָ֖ר לֹא־יִכָּחֵ֣ד מִן־הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וְאַתָּ֖ה תִּתְיַצֵּ֥ב מִנֶּֽגֶד׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 2 Sam 14:19And the king said: Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? The woman answered, and said: By the health of thy soul, my lord, O king, it is neither on the left hand, nor on the right, in all these things which my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he commanded me, and he put all these words into the mouth of thy handmaid.
- 2 Sam 14:20That I should come about with this form of speech, thy servant Joab commanded this: but thou, my lord, O king, art wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to understand all things upon earth.
- Heb 4:13Neither is there any creature invisible in his sight: but all things are naked and open to his eyes, to whom our speech is.
- 2 Sam 4:10The man that told me, and said: Saul is dead, who thought he brought good tidings, I apprehended, and slew him in Siceleg, who should have been rewarded for his news.
- 2 Sam 4:12And David commanded his servants and they slew them: and cutting off their hands and feet, hanged them up over the pool in Hebron: but the head of Isboseth they took and buried in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
- 2 Sam 1:15And David calling one of his servants, said: Go near and fall upon him. And he struck him so that he died.
- 2 Sam 1:16And David said to him: Thy blood be upon thy own head: for thy own mouth hath spoken against thee, saying: I have slain the Lord's anointed.