2 Samuel 18:1-15

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 18:12

Or, take heed what (for so the Hebrew pronoun mi is sometimes used, as Judges 13:17) ye do with the young man. He expresseth David’s sense, though not his words. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 18:13

Either, first, I should have been guilty of false and perfidious dealing against the king’s express injunction, and that with the manifest hazard of my own life. Or, secondly I should have betrayed my own life. I should not only have deceived myself with false hopes, either of concealing my fact from the king, or of obtaining a reward, yea, or a pardon, from him or thee for it; but also have destroyed myself thereby, and laid a plot against my own life. There is no matter hid from the king;... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 18:14

I may not tarry thus with thee; I must not lose time in contending with thee till I let the occasion slip. Through the heart of Absalom; not properly so called, for he was yet alive after these wounds, and was slain, 2 Samuel 18:15; but through his middle, as the word heart is oft used, as Psalms 46:2, and that too not exactly, but more largely understood, as Deuteronomy 4:11; Ezekiel 27:4; Matthew 12:40; or through his body; which might be, and yet the wounds not mortal. While he was yet... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 18:15

Judging that there could be no safety to the king, nor peace to the kingdom, nor security to himself, and all David’s friends and loyal subjects, and good men, if Absalom had lived, as may seem probable from 2 Samuel 19:10, and yet perceiving that the king’s heart was reconcilable to Absalom, notwithstanding his abominable crimes of lying with his father’s concubines, and of horrid and unnatural rebellion; both which were capital crimes by the law of God; he adventured to save David’s life... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Samuel 18:1-33

CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES.—2 Samuel 18:1. “David numbered,” etc. “The hardy mountaineers of Gilead came in great numbers at the call of their chieftains.”—(Jamieson.) Josephus says the army numbered about 4000.2 Samuel 18:6. The situation of this battle-ground is much disputed. Erdmann thinks the name can be understood only of the forest covering the mountains of Ephraim mentioned in Joshua 17:15-18, and Keil agrees with him; but against this view the majority of writers on the subject urge... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 18:1-33

Chapter 18So David numbered the people that were with him, and he set the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds. And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab, a third part under the hand of Abishai who was the brother of Joab, and a third part under Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also ( 2 Samuel 18:1-2 ).So now David is preparing to defend himself, and he divides the people that were... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 18:1-33

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 of Ephraim lay beyond Jordan, and was not in the lot of Ephraim; but was called so, either because Jephthah defeated the Ephraimites there, Judges 12:0., or on some other account. Rabbi Abulensis says, there was a precipice in this wood over which the routed mass of the rebels were driven. 2 Samuel 18:11 . And a girdle. This would have been... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Samuel 18:1-17

2 Samuel 18:1-17And David numbered the people that were with him.The fatal fightThis chapter is a narrative of that fatal fight wherein Absalom the son, fought with David his father for the kingdom of Israel.I. The antecedents of the battle.1. David mustered all his forces, which Josephus reckons but four thousand, yet Comestor computes them to be seven thousand (2 Samuel 18:1), but ‘tis probable they were many more from these cogent reasons.(1) David’s army must needs be greatly augmented by... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Samuel 18:3

2 Samuel 18:3Thou art worth ton thousand of us. What are you worthKing David was loved doubtless as much for the amiability and manliness of his character as for the throne on which he sat.I. True worth should be reckoned by character and not by money. In the civilised world, money is an idol served by many people. If a man possess plenty of gold, he carries a key which unlocks doors that are closed against one that is poorer but more worthy. The world, of course, respects honour and genius,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Samuel 18:5

2 Samuel 18:5Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. Grace for the gracelessBishop Hall thus descants on this--What means this ill-placed love? This unjust mercy. Deal gently with a traitor. Of all traitors, with a son? Of all sons with an Absalom? that graceless darling of so good a father? And all this, for thy sake, whose crown, whose blood, he hunts after? For whose sake must he be pursued, if forborne for thine? Must the cause of the quarrel be the motive of the... read more

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