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TEN SHEKELS - (About 25 shillings.) The word “shekel” is
understood, as in Genesis 20:16; Genesis 37:28. See the Exodus 38:24
note.
A GIRDLE - Girdles were c
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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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GIRDLE. A common present, made of silk, linen, or leather, and worked
sometimes in gold. Used for fastening up loose garments....
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_ten_shekels] _Shekels_is rightly supplied, as in 1 Kings 10:29, and
elsewhere. The shekel weighed about half an ounce; but its real value
at the time cannot be fixed.
_a girdle_ An essential article...
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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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_AND JOAB SAID UNTO THE MAN THAT TOLD HIM, AND, BEHOLD, THOU SAWEST
HIM, AND WHY DIDST THOU NOT SMITE HIM THERE TO THE GROUND? AND I WOULD
HAVE GIVEN THEE TEN SHEKELS OF SILVER, AND A GIRDLE._
I woul...
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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 יֹּ֣אמֶר יֹואָ֗ב לָ † אִישׁ֙ הַ...
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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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_Silver, somewhat above a guinea: sicles are not expressed in Hebrew.
(Haydock) --- Belt, the richest part of armour. Jonathan and Ajax made
presents of their belts to David and Hector, 1 Kings xviii....
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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 JOAB SAID UNTO THE MAN THAT TOLD HIM,.... That gave the above
account of him:
AND, BEHOLD, THOU SAWEST [HIM]; in reality; or, "didst thou see him?"
is it a fact?
AND WHY DIDST THOU NOT SMITE HIM...
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And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest
[him], and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I
would have given thee ten [shekels] of silver, and a girdle.
Ver....
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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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THE END OF ABSALOM...
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And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest
him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? Joab
severely reprimanded the private as though he had neglected an
import...
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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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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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Why didst thou not smite him down from the oak, and with thy spear
nail him to the ground? A GIRDLE; a military belt of more than
ordinary price, as a testimony of thy valour and good service. SEE
POO...
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2 Samuel 18:11 Joab H3097 said H559 (H8799) man H376 told H5046
(H8688) saw H7200 (H8804) him strike...
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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...