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Joab came into the house to the king, and said, “Today you have shamed the faces of all your servants who today have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;
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Verse 5. Shamed; deceived the expectations. See Joel 2:12. Joab was one of those who spoil all their services by ostentation and rudeness. Like the first Anthony, Immodicus lingua, obsequii insolens, nimius commemorandis quæ meruisset. Tacit. Hist. iv.—He speaks to David, his king, as one friend would not do to another. “That sort of men is truly odious, who upbraid with their kindness; which those who have experienced, rather than the authors, ought to remember.” Cicero. Amicit.
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