Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Samuel 20:6

6 And David said to Abishai , Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lords servants , and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.

Not to Ioab; lest by this means he should recover his Place, and Amasa be discontented, and David's Fidelity in making good his Promise to Amasa be questioned.

i. e. My Guards that attend upon my Person, and the other Soldiers who are now present with me. He speaks of himself in the Third Person, as is very frequent. For it is not probable he would now call Ioab his lord, whom he had lately Deposed; nor Amasa, who had not yet taken actual Possession of his Place, nor had the Command over the King's Guards.

Marginal references: Chap. 11. 11▪; Heb. deliver himself from our eyes.