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2 Samuel 14:15
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Et maintenant, si je suis venue pour tenir ce discours au roi, mon seigneur, c'est que le peuple m'a �pouvant�e. Et ta servante a dit: Je parlerai maintenant au roi; peut-�tre que le roi fera ce que sa servante lui dira.
Et maintenant, si je suis venue dire cette parole au roi, mon seigneur, c'est parce que le peuple m'a fait peur; et ta servante a dit: Que je parle donc au roi, peut-�tre que le roi accomplira la parole de sa servante;
Maintenant, si je suis venue dire ces choses au roi mon seigneur, c'est que le peuple m'a effray�e. Et ta servante a dit: Je veux parler au roi; peut-�tre le roi fera-t-il ce que dira sa servante.
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Reciprocal: Job 9:23 - he will
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king,.... Of the case of Absalom, under a feigned one of hers:
[it is] because the people have made me afraid; having heard of their whisperings, murmurings, and uneasiness among them, because Absalom was not sent for home, fearing there would be an insurrection in the nation, or an invasion of it by Absalom at the request of his friends; in which he might be supported by the king of Geshur; or however that disputes would arise about the succession, at the death of David; on these accounts she determined to speak to the king, and him them to him in the manner she had done; though some understand this of the discouragement the people laid her under, telling her the king would not hear her; nevertheless she was resolved to make trial:
and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be the king will perform the request of his handmaid; not only with respect to her own son, as feigned; but with respect to Absalom, the grand thing in view.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The people have made me afraid - She pretends still that her suit was a real one, and that she was in fear of the people (“the whole family,” 2 Samuel 14:7) setting upon her and her son.