2 Samuel 14:26
2 Samuel 14:26 Meaning and Explanation
“And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.”
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Read Full Chapter →His abundant hair, cut yearly, weighed a striking two hundred shekels.
What Does 2 Samuel 14:26 Mean?
The account dwells on Absalom's heavy hair, cut once a year and weighing two hundred shekels by the royal standard. The detail underscores the splendor that made him famous and admired.
The very hair that crowned his glory will later become the snare in which he is caught and killed. Scripture quietly sets up this irony, that the source of a man's pride can become the instrument of his fall, teaching that what we most boast in may prove our undoing when it is not held in humility before God.
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What does 2 Samuel 14:26 mean?
His abundant hair, cut yearly, weighed a striking two hundred shekels.