7 "Now behold , the whole family has risen against your maidservant , and they say , 'Hand over the one who struck his brother , that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed , and destroy the heir also .' Thus they will extinguish my coal which is left , so as to leave my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth ."
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Samuel 14:7
Commentary on 2 Samuel 14:1-20
(Read 2 Samuel 14:1-20)
We may notice here, how this widow pleads God's mercy, and his clemency toward poor guilty sinners. The state of sinners is a state of banishment from God. God pardons none to the dishonour of his law and justice, nor any who are impenitent; nor to the encouragement of crimes, or the hurt of others.