2 Samuel 18:1-17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 18:16

Blew the trumpet - To stop the pursuit and slaughter 2 Samuel 2:28; 2 Samuel 20:22. read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 18:17

A great heap of stones - See the marginal reference. This kind of monument is common to almost all early nations. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 18:1-3

2 Samuel 18:1-3. David numbered the people that were with him Which had flocked to him thither, so as to make up a small army. And finding himself sufficiently strong to go against the enemy, he resolved not to wait their coming, but to give the assault; and accordingly marched his forces out of the city, dividing them into three parts, and setting a captain over each, one of whom, however, Joab, was, doubtless, also general of the whole army. I will surely go forth with you myself also ... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 18:5

2 Samuel 18:5. Deal gently for my sake, &c. If you conquer, (which he expected they would, from God’s gracious answer to his prayer, in turning Ahithophel’s counsel into foolishness,) take him prisoner, but do not kill him. Which desire proceeded from his great indulgence toward his children; from his consciousness that he himself was the meritorious cause of this rebellion, Absalom being given up to it for the punishment of David’s sins; from the consideration of Absalom’s youth, which... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 18:8

2 Samuel 18:8. The battle was scattered over all the country In that neighbourhood; both in the field and in the wood. The wood devoured more people than the sword Some think the wood is said to devour them because they fell into pits, or stumbled upon stumps of trees, or pressed one another to death, as they came into strait places, or were killed by wild beasts. But the most natural meaning of the words is, that there were more slain in the wood, into which Absalom’s men fled, than in... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 18:9

2 Samuel 18:9. Absalom met the servants of David Who, according to David’s command, spared him, and gave him an opportunity to escape. But whom they would not arrest, the divine vengeance arrested. For the mule, on which he rode, went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak Probably he was entangled by the hair of his head, which, being long and thick, might easily catch hold of a bough. For it is likely he either wore no helmet, or he had thrown it... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 18:13

2 Samuel 18:13. I should have wrought falsehood against my own life Not only have been false and disobedient to the king, but should have betrayed my own life, and therefore not have been true to myself. For there is no matter hid from the king This, as all other things, would certainly have come to the king’s ear. Thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against me Thou wouldest have been my adversary and accuser, both because it would have been thy duty to be so, and to vindicate... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 18:14-15

2 Samuel 18:14-15. I may not tarry thus with thee I must not lose time in contending with thee, till I let the occasion slip. And thrust them through the heart of Absalom Not through the part properly so called, (for then he would have died immediately, and there would have been no need for his soldiers to fall upon him as they afterward did, 2 Samuel 18:15,) but through the midst of his body, which did not kill him outright, but some life still remained in him. Ten young men that bare... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 18:16

2 Samuel 18:16. Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned He knew Absalom’s men had been drawn unthinkingly into this rebellion, and would return to their duty, now they had none to head them. For Joab held back the people Who otherwise, being highly incensed against the rebels, would have hotly pursued, and made still greater slaughter among them. In this Joab acted like a wise and merciful man, who wished to stop the further effusion of Israelitish blood. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 18:17

2 Samuel 18:17. They took Absalom and cast him into a great pit They would not bring his body to be disposed of by his father’s order, lest it should excite his grief to excess. And laid a very great heap of stones upon him As a lasting monument of his sin and shame, and of the righteous judgment of God upon him. Thus the Israelites treated the dead body of Achan, and those of the king of Ai, and the five kings of the Amorites. See Joshua 7:26; Joshua 8:29; Joshua 10:27. Absalom was, in a... read more

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