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2Sa_14:21 And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom again.
Ver. 21. And the king said unto Joab.] Who was present, it seemeth, when this woman acted her part, and had brought her in to the king for that purpose.
Behold now, I have done this thing.] But how well David did it, the event will prove. Cassandra could not be hard when she sung,
“ Graia iuvenca venit quae te patriamque domumque
Perdit, io prohibe, Graia iuvenca venit. ” - Ovid., Epist.
David was ever too indulgent a father, and smarted for it. This fact of his is neither to be commended nor justified, saith Willet; excused it may be by some circumstances: but the wrath of God was soon revealed from heaven against it: as also it was against Maud, wife to William the Conqueror, and her eldest son Robert Curtuoise, whom she maintained out of her motherly indulgence in his quarrel for Normandy, out of her own coffers paying the charges of war against his father and her own husband. {a}
{a} Speed.