And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
Ver. 1. And it came to pass after this.] Two years after, saith Josephus: all which while, Absalom had been hammering and hatching this following insurrection; God raising up evil against David out of his own house, as he had threatened, 2 Samuel 12:11 .
That Absalom prepared him chariots and horses.] Pride buddeth, Eze 7:10 and ambition rideth without reins. Absalom will needs have a train and port like a prince and successor to the kingdom, so to dazzel the eyes of the common people, who are apt to judge of inward worth by outward gaiety, and to dote upon glittering shows, as they did upon Herod in his cloth of silver, Act 12:21-22 and upon Agrippa with his Bernice, when they came to the tribunal with a great deal of pomp. Act 25:23