2 Samuel 19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 19:33

And the king said to Barzillai, come thou over with me ,.... Over Jordan; Barzillai came with an intent to accompany the king over Jordan; but the king meant not only to go over Jordan, but when over to go further with him, even to Jerusalem: and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem ; meaning, that he should dwell with him in his palace, and eat at his table, in return for feeding him at Mahanaim. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 19:34

And Barzillai said unto the king ,.... In answer to the grateful proposal he made: how long have I to live ; that could not be said with exactness by any; but it might be probably conjectured from the age he was of, and the infirmities that attended him, that he could not live long; it was but a short time he had to be in the world: that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem ? take so long a journey as that, seeing he might die before he got thither; and if he did not, since it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 19:35

I am this day fourscore years old ,.... Not that that day was precisely his birthday, but that he was about such an age, very little under or over; very probably he was full that age: and can I discern between good and evil ? signifying, either that his intellectual powers were impaired, and could not distinguish what was right and wrong, and so could be of no service to David in his privy council, or any court of judicature, he was fit for no post or office under him; or that his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 19:36

Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king ,.... That is, go a little way after he was over Jordan with him, and then return to his own city: and why should the king recompense it with such a reward ? the sense is, why should the king recompense so trifling a thing as I have done, and which was but my duty, with such a reward, as to maintain me in so grand a manner at his court? read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 19:37

Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again ,.... To his own city, after he is gone ever Jordan, and seen the king a little way on his journey: that I may die in my own city : the city of Rogelim, where perhaps he was born, and had lived all his days, and where it is natural for people to desire to die, even in their native place: and be buried by the grave of my father, and of my mother : or "in" their grave, as Kimchi and Ben Melech, in the sepulchre of his fathers, where men... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 19:38

And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me ,.... He admitted of him instead of his father: and I will do unto him that which shall seem good unto thee ; he puts it to Barzillai, and leaves it with him to ask what he would for his son, and he would grant it. We nowhere read what it was that Barzillai asked, or whether he asked anything; only this we read, that some hundreds of years afterward there was a place called the habitation of Chimham near Bethlehem, Jeremiah 41:17 ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 19:39

And all the people went over Jordan ,.... That were with David: and when the king was come over ; over Jordan, had got to the other side of it, whither Barzillai accompanied him: the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him ; took his leave of him with a kiss, as friends were wont to do at parting, thanked him for all his favours, wished him well, and prayed to God to bless him with all blessings temporal and spiritual: and he returned to his own place : his own city Rogelim,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 19:40

Then the king went on to Gilgal ,.... Which, according to Josephus F14 Antiqu. l. 5. c. 1. sect. 4. , was fifty furlongs from Jordan, six miles and a quarter: and Chimham went on with him ; after Barzillai had left them, and accompanied the king to Jerusalem: and all the people of Judah conducted the king ; to Jerusalem; who came to meet him, 2 Samuel 19:15 , and also half the people of Israel ; or a part of them, as the word used signifies, and not always an equal half,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 19:41

And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king ,.... A large number of them, the other part that did not come over with David, some of their principal men, who met him upon the road: and said unto the king, why have our brethren, the men of Judah, stolen thee away ; secretly, privately, and unknown to them, and were bringing him back to Jerusalem: and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men with him, over Jordan ? him, and his family, and soldiers. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 19:42

And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel ,.... Such of them as went down to fetch the king back, replied to the men of Israel that now met them, and objected to their conduct: because the king is near of kin to us ; being of their tribe, and his palace was within their borders, and therefore they were proper persons to bring him home: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter ? for bringing the king back, and being the first in it; for who so proper as they, not only to... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 19:33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 19:34

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 19:35

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 19:36

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 19:37

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 19:38

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 19:39

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 19:40

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 19:41

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 19:42

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