Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Samuel 14:15

15 Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid : and thy handmaid said , I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.

The truth is, I was even forced to this bold Address to thee, by the disposition and condition of thy people, who are discontented at Absalom's perpetual banishment, and full of fears; either lest, upon thy death, which none knoweth how soon it may happen, they should be involved in a Civil War about thy Successor; or lest, in the mean time, if Absalom by his Father-in-laws assistance invade the Land, and indeavour by force to regain and secure his right to the Succession, the people, who have a great opinion of him, and kindness for him, and think he is very hardly used, should take up Arms for him; or lest he who is thy Heir and Successor should by continual and familiar conversation with Heathens, be insnared in their Errors, or alienated from the true Religion, and from Gods Worship, from which he is now utterly excluded.

Or, therefore thy handmaid said, either, within my self, i. e. I intended: or, to the people, to quiet them.