Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Samuel 19:5

5 And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants , which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons, and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy w[illegible: 1+ letters]ves, and the lives of thy concubines ,

Either the Gate-house: or, his now dwellinghouse in the City: to which he was retired, that he might more freely ind[illegible: 1+ letters]lge himself in the expressions of his grief.

By disappointing their just hopes of praises and rewards, and by requi[illegible: 1+ letters]ing them with contempt and tacit rebukes.

All which Absalom struck at, and had sooner or later actually taken away, if he had not been cut off in such a manner without expecting thy knowledge or consent: and therefore thy carriage towards them that have saved the lives of thee and thine, with the utmost hazard of their own, is highly unjust and ungrateful.