Joshua 17:15; Joshua 17:18; Judges 12:4-6
Against Israel - Implying that the revolt was in a great measure that of the ten tribes, Saul’s party, against the kingdom. The wood of Ephrai...
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the (c) wood of Ephraim; (c) So called, because the Ephraimites (as some...
1 Samuel 18:1 to 1 Samuel 19:8 . Defeat and Death of Absalom. David's Grief (J). 2 Samuel 18:1-8 . Absalom's followers are defeated with gr...
wood of Ephraim . Compare Joshua 17:15-18
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
And the battle was in the wood of Ephraim— It is supposed that this wood, which was in Gilead, not far from Maanaim, took its name either from the...
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim; The battle was in the wood of Ephraim, х y...
The Defeat and Death of Absalom 1. Numbered] rather, 'mustered.'
The wood of Ephraim] LXX reads 'Mahanaim' here.
The wood of Ephraim. — No wood of Ephraim on the eastern side of the Jordan happens to be elsewhere mentioned in Scripture. Yet it is plain that...
CHAPTER XXIII. ABSALOM'S DEFEAT AND DEATH. 2 Samuel 18:1-18 . WHATEVER fears of defeat and destruction might occasionally flit across David's...
the End of an Unfilial Son 2 Samuel 18:1-15 Absalom's army was soon across the river under Amasa, David's nephew, 2 Samuel 17:25-26 . Though p...
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 followe...
(6) So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim; (7) Where the people of Israel were slain before...
So the people went out into the field against Israel ,.... Josephus e calls it a great field, with a wood behind it: and the battle was in the woo...
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim; Ver. 6. And the battle was in the wood of Ephraim...
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...
Preparations for Battle. B. C. 1023. 1...
So called, not from its situation in the tribe of Ephraim, which was on the other side Jordan, as is evident; but from some memorable action or occur...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES.— 2 Samuel 18:1 . “David numbered,” etc. “The hardy mountaineers of Gilead came in great numbers at the call of t...
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...
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, foug...
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 18:1 And David numbered. The verb really means that he organized his army, and arranged it in companies and divisions...
The End of Absalom
So the people went out into the field against Israel, the army of David advancing to the attack; and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim, in the...
6 So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;