2 Samuel 17:23 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Book Notes

2 Samuel 17:23

21 Now it came to pass, after they had departed, that they came up out of the well and went and told King David, and said to David, ^a“Arise and cross over the water quickly. For thus has Ahithophel advised against you.”

22 So David and all the people who were with him arose and crossed over the Jordan. By morning light not one of them was left who had not gone over the Jordan.

23 Now when Ahithophel saw that his advice was not followed, he saddled a donkey, and arose and went home to ^ahis house, to his city. Then he¹ put his ^bhousehold in order, and ^changed himself, and died; and he was buried in his father’s tomb.

24 Then David went to ^aMahanaim. And Absalom crossed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

25 And Absalom made ^aAmasa captain of the army instead of Joab. This Amasa was the son of a man whose name was¹ Jithra, an Israelite, who had gone in to ^bAbigail the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

26 So Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.

27 Now it happened, when David had come to Mahanaim, that ^aShobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the people of Ammon, ^bMachir the son of Ammiel from Lo Debar, and ^cBarzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim,

28 brought beds and basins, earthen vessels and wheat, barley and flour, parched grain and beans, lentils and parched seeds,

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I & II Samuel

THE FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF SAMUEL. The two were, by the ancient Jews, conjoined so as to make one book, and in that form could be called the Book of Samuel with more propriety than now, the second being wholly occupied with the relation of transactions that did not take place till after the death of that eminent judge. Accordingly, in the Septuagint and the Vulgate, it is called the First and Second Books of Kings. The early portion of the First Book, down to the end of the twenty-fourth chapter, was probably written by Samuel; while the rest of it and the whole of the Second, are commonly ascribed to Nathan and Gad, founding the opinion on I Chronicles 29:29. Commentators, however, are divided about this, some supposing that the statements in I Samuel 2:26; I Samuel 3:1, indicate the hand of the judge himself, or a contemporary; while some think, from I Samuel 6:18; I Samuel 12:5; I Samuel 27:6, that its composition must be referred to a later age. It is probable, however, that these supposed marks of an after-period were interpolations of Ezra. This uncertainty, however, as to the authorship does not affect the inspired authority of the book, which is indisputable, being quoted in the New Testament (I Samuel 13:14 in Acts 13:22, and II Samuel 7:14 in Hebrews 1:5), as well as in many of the Psalms.

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