_MOREOVER AHITHOPHEL SAID UNTO ABSALOM, LET ME NOW CHOOSE OUT TWELVE THOUSAND MEN, AND I WILL ARISE AND PURSUE AFTER DAVID THIS NIGHT:_ Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom. The success of the measure was certain, and the many evils of a civil war entirely avoided. LET ME NOW CHOOSE OUT TWELVE T... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I WILL BRING BACK ALL THE PEOPLE UNTO THEE: THE MAN WHOM THOU SEEKEST IS AS IF ALL RETURNED: SO ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL BE IN PEACE._ I will bring back all the people ... the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned. [The Septuagint, apparently reading _ Lª'IYSHAAH_ (H582), for _ HAA'IYSH_ (H3... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SAYING PLEASED ABSALOM WELL, AND ALL THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO SHALL WE COME UPON HIM IN SOME PLACE WHERE HE SHALL BE FOUND, AND WE WILL LIGHT UPON HIM AS THE DEW FALLETH ON THE GROUND: AND OF HIM AND OF ALL THE MEN THAT ARE WITH HIM THERE SHALL NOT BE LEFT SO MUCH AS ONE._ We will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground. No image could have symbol... [ Continue Reading ]
_MOREOVER, IF HE BE GOTTEN INTO A CITY, THEN SHALL ALL ISRAEL BRING ROPES TO THAT CITY, AND WE WILL DRAW IT INTO THE RIVER, UNTIL THERE BE NOT ONE SMALL STONE FOUND THERE._ Then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city. In besieging a town, hooks or cranes were often thrown upon the walls or turre... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABSALOM AND ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL SAID, THE COUNSEL OF HUSHAI THE ARCHITE IS BETTER THAN THE COUNSEL OF AHITHOPHEL. FOR THE LORD HAD APPOINTED TO DEFEAT THE GOOD COUNSEL OF AHITHOPHEL, TO THE INTENT THAT THE LORD MIGHT BRING EVIL UPON ABSALOM._ The counsel of Hushai ... is better than the coun... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SAID HUSHAI UNTO ZADOK AND TO ABIATHAR THE PRIESTS, THUS AND THUS DID AHITHOPHEL COUNSEL ABSALOM AND THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL; AND THUS AND THUS HAVE I COUNSELLED._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THEREFORE SEND QUICKLY, AND TELL DAVID, SAYING, LODGE NOT THIS NIGHT IN THE PLAINS OF THE WILDERNESS, BUT SPEEDILY PASS OVER; LEST THE KING BE SWALLOWED UP, AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE WITH HIM._ Send quickly, and tell David. Apparently doubting that his advice would be followed, Hushai ordere... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW JONATHAN AND AHIMAAZ STAYED BY ENROGEL; FOR THEY MIGHT NOT BE SEEN TO COME INTO THE CITY: AND A WENCH WENT AND TOLD THEM; AND THEY WENT AND TOLD KING DAVID._ BY EN-ROGEL, х_ Bª-`EEYN-ROGEEL_ (H5883)] - 'The fuller's well,' or 'fountain of the scout' (known in modern times as Nehemiah's or Job's... [ Continue Reading ]
_NEVERTHELESS A LAD SAW THEM, AND TOLD ABSALOM: BUT THEY WENT BOTH OF THEM AWAY QUICKLY, AND CAME TO A MAN'S HOUSE IN BAHURIM, WHICH HAD A WELL IN HIS COURT; WHITHER THEY WENT DOWN._ They went ... away quickly, and came to a man's house ... which had a well in his court. The court was that of the h... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE WOMAN TOOK AND SPREAD A COVERING OVER THE WELL'S MOUTH, AND SPREAD GROUND CORN THEREON; AND THE THING WAS NOT KNOWN._ The woman ... spread a covering over the well's mouth х_ HAMAACAAK_ (H4539)] - the covering. It is used specially for the veil or curtain before the entrance of the taberna... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN ABSALOM'S SERVANTS CAME TO THE WOMAN TO THE HOUSE, THEY SAID, WHERE IS AHIMAAZ AND JONATHAN? AND THE WOMAN SAID UNTO THEM, THEY BE GONE OVER THE BROOK OF WATER. AND WHEN THEY HAD SOUGHT AND COULD NOT FIND THEM, THEY RETURNED TO JERUSALEM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN AHITHOPHEL SAW THAT HIS COUNSEL WAS NOT FOLLOWED, HE SADDLED HIS ASS, AND AROSE, AND GAT HIM HOME TO HIS HOUSE, TO HIS CITY, AND PUT HIS HOUSEHOLD IN ORDER, AND HANGED HIMSELF, AND DIED, AND WAS BURIED IN THE SEPULCHRE OF HIS FATHER._ When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN DAVID CAME TO MAHANAIM. AND ABSALOM PASSED OVER JORDAN, HE AND ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL WITH HIM._ Then David came to Mahanaim - in the high Eastern country of Gilead, the seat of Ish-bosheth's government. ABSALOM PASSED OVER JORDAN. It is not said how long an interval elapsed; but there must... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABSALOM MADE AMASA CAPTAIN OF THE HOST INSTEAD OF JOAB: WHICH AMASA WAS A MAN'S SON, WHOSE NAME WAS ITHRA AN ISRAELITE, THAT WENT IN TO ABIGAIL THE DAUGHTER OF NAHASH, SISTER TO ZERUIAH JOAB'S MOTHER._ Amasa. By the genealogy it appears that this captain stood in the same relation to David as... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO ISRAEL AND ABSALOM PITCHED IN THE LAND OF GILEAD._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN DAVID WAS COME TO MAHANAIM, THAT SHOBI THE SON OF NAHASH OF RABBAH OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND MACHIR THE SON OF AMMIEL OF LO'DEBAR, AND BARZILLAI THE GILEADITE OF ROGELIM,_ When David was come to Mahanaim. The necessities of the king and his followers were hospitably m... [ Continue Reading ]
_BROUGHT BEDS, AND BASONS, AND EARTHEN VESSELS, AND WHEAT, AND BARLEY, AND FLOUR, AND PARCHED CORN, AND BEANS, AND LENTILES, AND PARCHED PULSE,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HONEY, AND BUTTER, AND SHEEP, AND CHEESE OF KINE, FOR DAVID, AND FOR THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM, TO EAT: FOR THEY SAID, THE PEOPLE IS HUNGRY, AND WEARY, AND THIRSTY, IN THE WILDERNESS._ In the wilderness - spread out beyond the cultivated table-lands into the steppes of Hauran.... [ Continue Reading ]