Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Samuel 15:1-37
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES. 2 Samuel 15:1. “After this.” Keil, Erdmann and Thenius attach the idea of immediateness to the Hebrew adverb here used, but other scholars consider this doubtful. The word occurs only here, in 2 Samuel 3:28, and in 2 Chronicles 32:23, and its precise meaning cannot therefore be determined by usage. “Chariots,” i.e., “a state carriage.” (Keil.) “Fifty men.” “These runners are accustomed to precede the equipage of persons of distinction in Oriental countries. They... read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 15:36
There with them; not in Jerusalem, but in a place near to it, to which they could easily send upon occasion. See 2 Samuel 17:17. read more