Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Samuel 19:11

11 ¶ And king David sent to Zadok, and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah , saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house ? ([illegible: 1+ letters]eeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house ).

Who being the first and chief Abettors of Absalom's Rebellion, despaired of ever obtaining the Kings grace and pardon, and therefore were backward to promote the Kings Restauration.

To his Royal Palace at Ierusalem.

i. e. Even to Mahanaim, where now the Kings House and Family is. Thus sometimes one word is taken in divers senses in the same Verse, as Matth. 8. 22. Or rather thus: about bringing the King back to his house: For, First, Those words are very fitly and easily understood here, out of the foregoing member of the Verse; such defects being usual in the Hebrew, which is a very concise or short Language. So it is Exod. 22. 15. and Deut. 1. 4, &c. Secondly, It seems most reasonable to understand the same Phrase, to his house, being twice here used in the same sense in both places, to wit, of his House in Ierusalem: and this is most agreeable to rule, and to Scripture-usage. Thirdly, Thus the words have more Emphasis than the other way: for if the Speech came to the King at Mahanaim, it matters not whether it found him in his House there, or in the Gate-house, or in the field. Fourthly, David had no House in Mahanaim, which could properly be called his house; as he had in Ierusalem. And then the Parenthesis should close before those last words, even to his house, or even to his own house, to wit, that at Ierusalem.