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8. THE CIVIL WAR AND ABSALOM'S DEATH
CHAPTER 18
_ 1. The battle in the forest of Ephraim (2 Samuel 18:1)_
2. The death of Absalom (2 Samuel 18:9)
3. The tidings of his death and David's grief ...
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1 SAMUEL 18:1 TO 1 SAMUEL 19:8. DEFEAT AND DEATH OF ABSALOM. DAVID'S
GRIEF (J).
2 SAMUEL 18:1. Absalom's followers are defeated with great slaughter.
Nothing is known as to the battle-field, the Fore...
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OUR HEARING. See 2 Samuel 18:5
BEWARE THAT NONE TOUCH. _Watch_ any one who (would touch) the, &c.
After "Watch", Septuagint, Aramaean, Syriac, and Vulgate add "for my
sake", _as_ in 2 Samuel 18:5....
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_Beware that none touch_ Or, HAVE A CARE, ALL OF YOU, OF THE YOUNG MAN
ABSALOM: lit. as in the margin, _whosoever_ye be. But the Sept. and
Vulg. read _for my sake_, as in 2 Samuel 18:5, in place of
_w...
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Absalom's Death
9. _And Absalom_, &c. AND ABSALOM HAPPENED TO FIND HIMSELF IN THE
PRESENCE OF DAVID'S SERVANTS: NOW ABSALOM WAS RIDING UPON HIS MULE,
AND THE MULE, &c. In the course of the flight, Abs...
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_The Death of Absalom._ 2 Samuel 18:9-18
9And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule,
and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head
caught hold of the...
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18:12 you], (a-49) Others, including LXX, read 'Take care for my
sake.'...
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THE DEFEAT AND DEATH OF ABSALOM
1. Numbered] rather, 'mustered.'...
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DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL
2 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 18
DAVID’S MEN DEFEAT AND KILL ABSALOM
V1 David counted the soldiers who were with him. He appointed men to
command groups of 1000...
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וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר הָ אִישׁ֙ אֶל ־יֹואָ֔ב
_וְ_†_ל֨וּ_
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CHAPTER XXIII.
_ ABSALOM'S DEFEAT AND DEATH._
2 Samuel 18:1.
WHATEVER fears of defeat and destruction might occasionally flit
across David's soul between his flight from Jerusalem and the battle
in...
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THE END OF AN UNFILIAL SON
2 Samuel 18:1
Absalom's army was soon across the river under Amasa, David's nephew,
2 Samuel 17:25. Though political reasons constrained David to flight,
his heart bled for...
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The delay advised by Hushai resulted in multitudes gathering to David,
and at last the day of battle between those loyal to him and Absalom's
followers arrived. Two men attract our attention, David an...
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_Save. Protestants, "beware that none touch the young man."_...
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(10) And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw
Absalom hanged in an oak. (11) And Joab said unto the man that told
him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smit...
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In the sketch proposed of these books of scripture there is of course
no pretension to notice every point of interest they contain, but only
a general comprehensive view, as far as the Lord enables me...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 14 THROUGH 20.
David's partiality for Absalom had yet other and more painful results,
and heavy chastisements. It is painful to see the conqueror of Goliath
d...
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AND THE MAN SAID UNTO JOAB,.... Disdaining his proposal:
THOUGH I SHOULD RECEIVE A THOUSAND [SHEKELS] OF SILVER IN MINE HAND;
or such a sum should be offered to me; the Arabic version is a
million;...
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And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand
[shekels] of silver in mine hand, [yet] would I not put forth mine
hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king charged thee...
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1 Dauid viewing the armies in their march, giueth them charge of
Absalom.
6 The Israelites are sore smitten in the wood of Ephraim.
9 Absalom hanging in an Oke, is slaine by Ioab, and cast into a pi...
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And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels
of silver in mine hand, literally, "weighed into my hand," that is,
seven hundred dollars instead of the seven offered, YET WOULD...
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THE END OF ABSALOM...
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David had taken full advantage of the delay that Hushai had counselled
to Absalom, with large numbers of the people being gathered to David.
Now the time comes for war with Absalom, who has considered...
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RECEIVE:
_ Heb._ weigh upon mine hand
BEWARE THAT:
_ Heb._ beware whosoever ye be, of etc....
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9-18 Let young people look upon Absalom, hanging on a tree, accursed,
forsaken of heaven and earth; there let them read the Lord's
abhorrence of rebellion against parents. Nothing can preserve men fro...
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Or, _take heed what_ (for so the Hebrew pronoun _mi_ is sometimes
used, as JUDGES 13:17) ye do _with the young man_. He expresseth
David's sense, though not his words....
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2 Samuel 18:12 man H376 said H559 (H8799) Joab H3097 Though H3863
receive H8254 (H8802) thousand H505 silver...
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CONTENTS: Battle of Mount Ephriam. Slaying of Absalom.
CHARACTERS: God, David, Absalom, Joab, Abishai, Ittai, Ahimaaz, a
Cushite.
CONCLUSION: Those who exalt themselves shall be abased. It never pay...
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2 Samuel 18:2. _A third part under Ittai,_ the Philistine general who
had faithfully followed the fortunes of the king.
2 Samuel 18:6. _The wood of Ephraim_ lay beyond Jordan, and was not in
the lot o...
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_And David numbered the people that were with him._
THE FATAL FIGHT
This chapter is a narrative of that fatal fight wherein Absalom the
son, fought with David his father for the kingdom of Israel....
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES.—
2 Samuel 18:1. “DAVID NUMBERED,” etc. “The hardy mountaineers of
Gilead came in great numbers at the call of their
chieftains.”—_(Jamieson.)_ Josephus says the army nu...
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EXPOSITION
2 SAMUEL 18:1
AND DAVID NUMBERED. The verb really means that he organized his army,
and arranged it in companies and divisions. As Absalom gathered all
Israel to him, there would be some d...
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So David numbered the people that were with him, and he set the
captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds. And David
sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab, a t...
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2 Samuel 18:5...