2 Samuel 18:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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2 SAMUEL CHAPTER 18 David viewing the armies in their march, giveth them charge of Absalom, 2 Samuel 18:1-5; whose men are smitten: he hanging by his hair on an oak, is slain by Joab, and cast into a pit: his pillar and monument, 2 Samuel 18:6-18. David hearing hereof, 2 Samuel 18:19-32, mourneth for Absalom, 2 Samuel 18:33. The people that were with him; which flocked to him thither, so as to make up a small army.

2 Samuel 18:1

1 And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.