2 Samuel 1:7
[Here am I. Heb. Behold me.]
2 Samuel 15:26
[I have not.]
<06213> [let.]
2 Samuel 12:11
bring <06965> [I will raise.]
take <03947> [I will take.]
That is, in the course of my providence I will permit this to be done. Such phrases in Scripture do not mean that God either does or can do evil himself; but only that he permits such evil to be done as he foresaw would be done, and which, had he pleased, he might have prevented.
