“ So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead. ”
David Comes to Mahanaim (J). 2 Samuel 17:15-21 . Meanwhile David was in constant communication with his agents in Jerusalem through Jonathan and Ahimaaz. But one day, apparently when the news of...
So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.
So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead. No JFB commentary on this verse.
The Fall of Ahithophel Absalom follows the advice of Hushai rather than that of Ahithophel, who thereupon hangs himself. David retreats to Mahanaim.
Pitched in the land of Gilead. — Gilead is the tract of country on the east of the Jordan, extending from the land of Moab on the south to Bashan on the north, the valley of the Hieromax forming pr...
CHAPTER XXI. FROM JERUSALEM TO MAHANAIM. 2 Samuel 16:1-14 ; 2 Samuel 17:15-22 and 2 Samuel 17:24-26 . AS David proceeds on his painful journey, there flows from his heart a gentle current o...
the Helpers of the King 2 Samuel 17:15-29 The two young men were narrowly watched, and had it not been for the deception practiced on Absalom's servants by the mistress of the house at Bahurim,...
Ahithophel counseled immediate war-like activity. As David had not gone far, and could not have gathered round him any large number of men, let a company be sent to capture him, and that immediately....
(24) Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him. (25) And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son,...
So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead. Which belonged to the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh; here the Israelites that were with Absalom encamped, in order to...
So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead. Ver. 26. Pitched in the land of Gilead. ] Near Mahanaim, that they might keep in and contrain David, or draw him out to fight them.
Ahithophel discerned clearly that if Absalom was to gain any victory over David he must strike quickly. Satan knows that the only way to establish the anti-christ in power is to destroy the true Chri...
Ahithophel's Death; Absalom's Pursuit of David. B. C. 1023. 22 Then David arose, and a...
No text from Poole on this verse.
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES. 2 Samuel 17:25 . “An Israelite.” Rather, as in 1 Chronicles 2:17 , an Ishmaelite . He was an illegitimate son. “From the description here given of Abigail as a...
2 Samuel 17:17 . En-rogel was near Jerusalem. Joshua 15:7-8 . 2 Samuel 17:21 . Thus hath Ahithophel counselled. This disclosure of Absalom's plans saved David from being surprised, and drove...
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 17:1 Let me now choose out twelve thousand men. The advice of Ahithophel was such as would have made success almost certain. The rebellion had taken David by surprise,...
David In The Country East of Jordan
Deuteronomy 3:15 ; Joshua 17:1 ; Numbers 32:1-42