SEV Biblia, Chapter 14:15
Y que yo he venido ahora para decir esto al rey mi señor, es porque el pueblo me ha puesto miedo. Mas tu sierva dijo en si : Hablaré ahora al rey; por ventura hará el rey la palabra de su sierva.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 15. Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king , etc.] 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-20 - We may notice here, how this widow pleads God's mercy, and his clemenc toward poor guilty sinners. The state of sinners is a state of banishment from God. God pardons none to the dishonour of his law an justice, nor any who are impenitent; nor to the encouragement of crimes, or the hurt of others.
Original Hebrew
ועתה 6258 אשׁר 834 באתי 935 לדבר 1696 אל 413 המלך 4428 אדני 113 את 853 הדבר 1697 הזה 2088 כי 3588 יראני 3372 העם 5971 ותאמר 559 שׁפחתך 8198 אדברה 1696 נא 4994 אל 413 המלך 4428 אולי 194 יעשׂה 6213 המלך 4428 את 853 דבר 1697 אמתו׃ 519
