2 Samuel 16:15 (BSB)
Then Absalom and all the men of Israel came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him.
From 2 Samuel 16. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on 2 Samuel 16:15
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on 2 Samuel 16:15-23: Absalom had notice sent him speedily by some of his friends at Jerusalem that David had withdrawn, and with what a small retinue he had gone; so that the coasts were clear, Absalom might take possession of Jerusalem when he pleased. The gates were open, and there was none to oppose him.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on 2 Samuel 16:15: And Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem,.... At the same time that David and his people came to Bahurim; which, as Josephus (z) says, was a place near to Jerusalem; and, according to Bunting (a), was little more than a mile from it; though elsewhere (b) he makes it three miles; so that had not David made the hasty...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on 2 Samuel 16:15: Hushai said unto Absalom, God save the king--Hushai's devotion to David was so well-known, that his presence in the camp of the conspirators excited great surprise. Professing, however, with great address, to consider it his duty to support the cause which the course of Providence and the national will had seemingly decreed should triumph, and urging his friendship for the father as a ground of...
- Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on 2 Samuel 16:15: The men of Israel - These words are wanting in the Chaldee, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, and Arabic, and in two of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS.