Deuteronomy 3:15; Joshua 17:1; Numbers 32:1-42
David Comes to Mahanaim (J). 2 Samuel 17:15-21 . Meanwhile David was in constant communication with his agents in Jerusalem through Jonathan and...
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 Mahanai...
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 o...
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 jour...
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...
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 com...
(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 h...
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 Israe...
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...
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 th...
Ahithophel's Death; Absalom's Pursuit of David. B. C. 1023....
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...
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...
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 c...
David In The Country East of Jordan
26 So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.