Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
There is no note of time whatever, nor any clue as to what part of David' s reign the events of this chapter ought to be assigned.
Enquired of the Lord - Hebrew "sought the face of the Lord," quite a different phrase from that so often used in Judges (e. g. Judges 1:1) and the Books of Samuel, and probably indicating that this chapter is from a different source; an inference agreeing with the indefinite "in the days of David," and with the allusion to the slaughter of the Gibeonites, which has not anywhere been narrated.
And for his bloody house - literally, "the house of blood," i. e., the house or family upon which rests the guilt of shedding innocent blood.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Joshua 9:22
2 Samuel 4:2
2 Samuel 21:15
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