2 Samuel 18:5 - Forerunner Commentary

2 Samuel 18:5

3 ^aBut the people answered, “You shall not go out! For if we flee away, they will not care about us; nor if half of us die, will they care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us now. For you are now more help to us in the city.”

4 Then the king said to them, “Whatever seems best to you I will do.” So the king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

5 Now the king had commanded Joab, Abishai, and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom.” ^aAnd all the people heard when the king gave all the captains orders concerning Absalom.

6 So the people went out into the field of battle against Israel. And the battle was in the ^awoods of Ephraim.

7 The people of Israel were overthrown there before the servants of David, and a great slaughter of twenty thousand took place there that day.

8 For the battle there was scattered over the face of the whole countryside, and the woods devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

9 Then Absalom met the servants of David. Absalom rode on a mule. The mule went under the thick boughs of a great terebinth tree, and ^ahis head caught in the terebinth; so he was left hanging between heaven and earth. And the mule which was under him went on.

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Definitions of words in 2 Samuel 18:5:

Abishai {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Abishai {Hitchcock's Bible Names}
Abishai {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

All {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Concerning {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Deal {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

For {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Ittai {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Ittai {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Joab {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Joab {Hitchcock's Bible Names}
Joab {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Man {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Man {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

People {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Absalom {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Absalom {Hitchcock's Bible Names}

King {Easton's Bible Dictionary}

Other definition entries containing 2 Samuel 18:5:

Joab {Easton's}

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