Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Absalom had sheep-shearers in Baal-hazor, which is beside Ephraim—A sheep-shearing feast is a grand occasion in the East. Absalom proposed to give such an entertainment at his estate in Baal-hazor, about eight miles northeast of Jerusalem near a town called Ephraim (Joshua 11:10). He first invited the king and his court; but the king declining, on account of the heavy expense to which the reception of royalty would subject him [II Samuel 13:25], Absalom then limited the invitation to the king's sons [II Samuel 13:26], which David the more readily agreed to, in the hope that it might tend to the promotion of brotherly harmony and union.
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