Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Samuel 19:6

6 In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends; for thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes, nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well .

This is not to be understood as exactly true in the rigour of it; but onely comparatively and Hyper[illegible: 1+ letters]olically spoken. For David desired their preservation and Absalom's too: but it must be considered, that Ioab was now in an high transport of passion, which might easily hurry him into indecent expressions; and that David's carriage gave too much colour to such a suggestion; and that such sharpness of speech was in a manner necessary to awaken the▪ King out of his Lethargy, and to preserve him from the impendent mischiefs.

Marginal references: Heb. by loving, &c.; Heb. that princes, or servants, are not to thee.