The battle was scattered - Probably Absalom’s forces were far more numerous than David’s; but, most likely by Joab’s skillful generalship, the field of battle was such that numbers did not tell, and David’s veteran troops were able to destroy Absalom’s rabble in detail. The wood entangled them, and was perhaps full of pits, precipices, and morasses 2 Samuel 18:17.
Verse 2 Samuel 18:8. _THE WOOD DEVOURED MORE PEOPLE_] It is generally supposed that, when the army was broken, they betook themselves to the wood, fell into pits, swamps, c., and, being entangled, wer...
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 ...
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...
THE FACE. Figure of speech _Pleonasm,_ with _Prosopopceia._ App-6. devoured. Hebrew "multiplied to devour", to emphasise the great number. Figure of speech _Prosopopaia._ App-6....
_the wood devoured more_, &c. The explanation generally given is that they perished in the pits and precipices and morasses of the forest: but this seems unlikely. More probably it means that owing to...
_David's Battle Plan._ 2 Samuel 18:1-8 And David numbered the people that _were_ with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them. 2 And David sent forth a third part of the...
_FOR THE BATTLE WAS THERE SCATTERED OVER THE FACE OF ALL THE COUNTRY: AND THE WOOD DEVOURED MORE PEOPLE THAT DAY THAN THE SWORD DEVOURED._ The wood devoured more people ... than the sword. The thick...
THE DEFEAT AND DEATH OF ABSALOM 1. Numbered] rather, 'mustered.'...
THE BATTLE WAS THERE SCATTERED] So Joab was able to destroy Absalom's forces in detail. THE WOOD DEVOURED, etc.] The thickness of the wood, its swamps, precipices, etc., militated against the fugitive...
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...
THE WOOD DEVOURED MORE. — The battle and the pursuit covered a wide range of country; more were slain in the pursuit through the wood, both by accident and by the sword, than in the actual battle itse...
וַ תְּהִי ־שָׁ֧ם הַ מִּלְחָמָ֛ה _נָפֹ֖וצֶת_† עַל...
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...
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...
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...
_Country; people fighting in great numbers. But the army of Absalom was soon dispersed. (Haydock) --- Consumed, viz., by pits and precipices: (Challoner) "wild beasts." (Syriac, &c.) Many also died of...
(6) So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim; (7) Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great...
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...
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...
FOR THE BATTLE WAS THERE SCATTERED OVER THE FACE OF ALL THE COUNTRY,.... Or the warriors were scattered, as the Targum; Absalom's soldiers, their ranks were broken, and they were thrown into the utmos...
For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured. Ver. 8. _And the wood devoured more people that day._] While i...
_The battle was scattered over all the country_ In that neighbourhood; both in the field and in the wood. _The wood devoured more people than the sword_ Some think the wood is said to devour them beca...
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...
THE END OF ABSALOM...
For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country, it was spread out over the entire woody mountain terrain, which was cut up by deep gorges; AND THE WOOD DEVOURED MORE PEOPLE THAT D...
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...
DEVOURED: _ Heb._ multiplied to devour...
1-8 How does David render good for evil! Absalom would have only David smitten; David would have only Absalom spared. This seems to be a resemblance of man's wickedness towards God, and God's mercy to...
THE BATTLE WAS THERE SCATTERED, i. e. the warriors being beaten in the fight, fled, and were dispersed; the abstract being put for the concrete, as _poverty_ is put for _poor men_, 2 KINGS 24:14, and...
2 Samuel 18:8 battle H4421 scattered H6327 (H8737) face H6440 countryside H776 woods H3293 devoured H398 (H8800) mor
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...
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...
_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....
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 18:1 After a brief description of the battle, the author focuses on how Absalom died and on David’s grief over his son’s death. ⇐...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 18:6 The FOREST OF EPHRAIM was actually not in Ephraim but east of the Jordan in Gilead. Here David’s experienced army could effectively attack a much larger force, most of w...
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...
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...
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...
1 Kings 20:30; Exodus 15:10; Joshua 10:11; Judges 5:20; Judges 5:21;...
The wood — More people died in the wood, either through hunger, and thirst, and weariness: or, by the wild beasts, whereof great numbers were there, which, though they were driven away from the place...