Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Samuel 19:10

10 And Absalom whom we anointed over us, is dead in battel : now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?

i. e. Caused to be Anointed by Zadok, or Abiathar, or some other of the Priests, whom they persuaded or constrained to do this office: for this being a Sacred Ceremony, of great reputation, and a likely means to gain the more authority and veneration from the people to Absalom, as one whom God by his Vicegerent had constituted and set up; and this rite being usual upon all translations of the Government from one person to another in an extraordinary way, as this confessedly was, it is not likely that they would now omit it: though otherwise Anointing is frequently put for designing or constituting.

And therefore we have no obligation to him, and no hope of any thing from him.

The People of Israel speak thus to the Elders of Israel, as appears by comparing this Verse with the next. Seeing their designs for Absalom disappointed, they now repented of that undertaking, and were willing to testify so much by their forwardness to bring back David, and re-establish him.

Marginal references: Heb. are ye silent.