* his head.
Riding furiously under the thick boughs of a great oak, which
hung low and had never been cropped, either the twisted
branches, or some low forked bough of the tree, caught him by
the neck, or, as some think, by the loops into which his long
hair had been pinned, which had been so much his pride, and
was now justly made a halter for him. He may have hung so low
from the bough, in consequence of the length of his hair, that
he could not use his hands to help himself, or so entangled
that his hands were bound, so that the more he struggled the
more he was embarrassed. This set him up as a fair mark to
the servants of David; and although David would have spared
his rebellious son, if his orders had been executed, yet he
could not turn the sword of Divine justice, in executing the
just, righteous sentence of death on this traitorous son.
14 14:26 17:23 Mt 27:5
* taken up.
De 21:23 27:16,20 Job 18:8-10 31:3 Ps 63:9,10 Pr 20:20 30:17
Jer 48:44 Mr 7:10 Ga 3:13
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