2 Samuel 15:2

beside the way of the gate By the side of the road leading to the gate of the king's palace, where he sat to transact business. Cp. ch. 2 Samuel 19:8. From this practice the Sultan's government is still popularly called in Turkey "the Sultan's gate," and the Sublime Porte, which is the French equivalent of Bab-i-Humayoon(the high gate), the name of the principal gate of the palace at Constantinople, is used by us as a synonym for the Turkish government.

a controversy Better, a suit, as in 2 Samuel 15:4.

of one of the tribes of Israel Belongs to such and such a tribe or city: naming the particular one in each case.