2 Samuel 14

2 Samuel 14:9

My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house: and the king and his throne be guiltless.

If there be ought amiss, in forbearing to execute revenge upon the offender, I take it wholly upon myself; thou, O king, and thy throne shall be herein guiltless.

2 Samuel 14:14

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; [because God hath not taken away his life, he hath also devised means,] that his banished be not expelled from him.

Our very life consists in his, and we are utterly lost if such a hope of succession be rigorously cut off; which, it is a sign that God would have continued, in that he hath not, all this while of his banishment, taken him away, but hath now made this means unto thee for his restoring.

2 Samuel 14:26

After the king’s shekel.

According to the ordinary weight of the shekel, in civil use of trade; every shekel weighing two drams and sixteen grains.