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Verse 2 Samuel 18:15. _TEN YOUNG MEN - SMOTE ABSALOM AND SLEW HIM._]
That is, they all pierced the body; but there could be no life in it
after three darts had been thrust through the heart: but they...
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8. THE CIVIL WAR AND ABSALOM'S DEATH
CHAPTER 18
_ 1. The battle in the forest of Ephraim (2 Samuel 18:1)_
2. The death of Absalom (2 Samuel 18:9)
3. The tidings of his death and David's grief ...
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1 SAMUEL 18:1 TO 1 SAMUEL 19:8. DEFEAT AND DEATH OF ABSALOM. DAVID'S
GRIEF (J).
2 SAMUEL 18:1. Absalom's followers are defeated with great slaughter.
Nothing is known as to the battle-field, the Fore...
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ARMOUR. weapons.
SLEW HIM. David being fifty-seven years old; Absalom, twenty-four;
Solomon, seven....
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_The Death of Absalom._ 2 Samuel 18:9-18
9And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule,
and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head
caught hold of the...
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_AND TEN YOUNG MEN THAT BARE JOAB'S ARMOUR COMPASSED ABOUT AND SMOTE
ABSALOM, AND SLEW HIM._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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THE DEFEAT AND DEATH OF ABSALOM
1. Numbered] rather, 'mustered.'...
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DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL
2 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 18
DAVID’S MEN DEFEAT AND KILL ABSALOM
V1 David counted the soldiers who were with him. He appointed men to
command groups of 1000...
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וַ יָּסֹ֨בּוּ֙ עֲשָׂרָ֣ה נְעָרִ֔ים
נֹשְׂאֵ֖י כְּלֵ֣י...
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CHAPTER XXIII.
_ ABSALOM'S DEFEAT AND DEATH._
2 Samuel 18:1.
WHATEVER fears of defeat and destruction might occasionally flit
across David's soul between his flight from Jerusalem and the battle
in...
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THE END OF AN UNFILIAL SON
2 Samuel 18:1
Absalom's army was soon across the river under Amasa, David's nephew,
2 Samuel 17:25. Though political reasons constrained David to flight,
his heart bled for...
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The delay advised by Hushai resulted in multitudes gathering to David,
and at last the day of battle between those loyal to him and Absalom's
followers arrived. Two men attract our attention, David an...
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Ten. Naharai alone is specified, chap. xxiii. 37. Why he had ten does
not appear. (Calmet) --- Slew him, inflicting many wounds on him;
though Joab had already done sufficient. (Haydock) --- These men...
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(10) And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw
Absalom hanged in an oak. (11) And Joab said unto the man that told
him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smit...
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In the sketch proposed of these books of scripture there is of course
no pretension to notice every point of interest they contain, but only
a general comprehensive view, as far as the Lord enables me...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 14 THROUGH 20.
David's partiality for Absalom had yet other and more painful results,
and heavy chastisements. It is painful to see the conqueror of Goliath
d...
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AND TEN YOUNG MEN THAT BARE JOAB'S ARMOUR,.... That waited upon him in
the battle, to carry his armour, and supply him with it as he should
have occasion; these, by his orders,
COMPASSED ABOUT, AND S...
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_And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote
Absalom, and slew him._
Ver. 15. _And ten young men._] As he had defiled his father's ten
concubines, so by these ten youngsters h...
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_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, (fo...
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1 Dauid viewing the armies in their march, giueth them charge of
Absalom.
6 The Israelites are sore smitten in the wood of Ephraim.
9 Absalom hanging in an Oke, is slaine by Ioab, and cast into a pi...
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And ten young men that bare Joab's armor compassed about and smote
Absalom, and slew him, completing the work of their master....
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THE END OF ABSALOM...
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David had taken full advantage of the delay that Hushai had counselled
to Absalom, with large numbers of the people being gathered to David.
Now the time comes for war with Absalom, who has considered...
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9-18 Let young people look upon Absalom, hanging on a tree, accursed,
forsaken of heaven and earth; there let them read the Lord's
abhorrence of rebellion against parents. Nothing can preserve men fro...
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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 probab...
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2 Samuel 18:15 ten H6235 men H5288 bore H5375 (H8802) Joabs H3097
armor H3627 surrounded H5437 (H8799) Absalom
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CONTENTS: Battle of Mount Ephriam. Slaying of Absalom.
CHARACTERS: God, David, Absalom, Joab, Abishai, Ittai, Ahimaaz, a
Cushite.
CONCLUSION: Those who exalt themselves shall be abased. It never pay...
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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 o...
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_And David numbered the people that were with him._
THE FATAL FIGHT
This chapter is a narrative of that fatal fight wherein Absalom the
son, fought with David his father for the kingdom of Israel....
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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 nu...
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EXPOSITION
2 SAMUEL 18:1
AND DAVID NUMBERED. The verb really means that he organized his army,
and arranged it in companies and divisions. As Absalom gathered all
Israel to him, there would be some d...
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So 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 t...
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Slew him — The darts did not dispatch him, and therefore they smote
him again, and killed him....