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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

撒母耳记下 15:12

押沙龍獻祭的時候,差派人去把大衛的參謀基羅人亞希多弗從他的本城基羅請來。於是叛亂的勢力越來越大,跟隨押沙龍的人民也越來越多。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ahithophel;   Ambition;   Ark;   Cabinet;   Citizens;   Conspiracy;   Friends;   Giloh;   Usurpation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Ahithophel;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ahithophel;   Giloh;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Absalom;   Wisdom literature;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ahithophel;   Counsellor;   Giloh;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ahithophel;   Giloh;   Judas Iscariot;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ahithophel;   Crimes and Punishments;   Giloh;   King, Kingship;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ahithophel;   Giloh;   Samuel, Books of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ahithophel ;   Giloh ;   Gilonite ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Absalom;   Ahithophel;   David;   Jerusalem;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Gi'loh;   Gi'lonite, the,;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ahithophel;   Confederate;   David;   Giloh;   Government;   Ittai;   Philistines;   Treason;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ahithophel;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sacrifice;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
押 沙 龙 献 祭 的 时 候 , 打 发 人 去 将 大 卫 的 谋 士 、 基 罗 人 亚 希 多 弗 从 他 本 城 请 了 来 。 於 是 叛 逆 的 势 派 甚 大 ; 因 为 随 从 押 沙 龙 的 人 民 , 日 渐 增 多 。

Contextual Overview

7 After four years Absalom said to King David, "Please let me go to Hebron. I want to carry out my promise that I made to the Lord 8 while I was living in Geshur in Aram. I said, ‘If the Lord takes me back to Jerusalem, I will worship him in Hebron.'" 9 The king said, "Go in peace." So Absalom went to Hebron. 10 But he sent secret messengers through all the tribes of Israel. They told the people, "When you hear the trumpets, say this: ‘Absalom is the king at Hebron!'" 11 Absalom had invited two hundred men to go with him. So they went from Jerusalem with him, but they didn't know what he was planning. 12 While Absalom was offering sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel, one of the people who advised David, to come from his hometown of Giloh. So Absalom's plans were working very well. More and more people began to support him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ahithophel: 2 Samuel 15:31, 2 Samuel 16:20-23, 2 Samuel 17:14, 2 Samuel 17:23

David's: Psalms 41:9, Psalms 55:12-14, Micah 7:5, Micah 7:6, John 13:18

Giloh: Joshua 15:51

while he offered: Numbers 23:1, Numbers 23:14, Numbers 23:30, 1 Kings 21:9, 1 Kings 21:12, Psalms 50:16-21, Proverbs 21:27, Isaiah 1:10-16, Titus 1:16

the people: Psalms 3:1, Psalms 3:2, Psalms 43:1, Psalms 43:2

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 16:23 - both 2 Samuel 19:10 - whom 1 Kings 1:7 - And he conferred 1 Kings 1:9 - slew 1 Chronicles 27:33 - Ahithophel Psalms 4:5 - Offer Psalms 55:13 - my guide Psalms 109:3 - fought Psalms 109:5 - hatred Proverbs 17:11 - General Ecclesiastes 4:16 - no end Acts 23:13 - which

Cross-References

Genesis 2:21
So the Lord God caused the man to sleep very deeply, and while he was asleep, God removed one of the man's ribs. Then God closed up the man's skin at the place where he took the rib.
Genesis 15:3
Abram said, "Look, you have given me no son, so a slave born in my house will inherit everything I have."
Genesis 15:5
Then God led Abram outside and said, "Look at the sky. There are so many stars you cannot count them. Your descendants also will be too many to count."
Genesis 15:8
But Abram said, "Lord God , how can I be sure that I will own this land?"
Genesis 15:9
The Lord said to Abram, "Bring me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old goat, a three-year-old male sheep, a dove, and a young pigeon."
Genesis 15:13
Then the Lord said to Abram, "You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers and travel in a land they don't own. The people there will make them slaves and be cruel to them for four hundred years.
Genesis 15:14
But I will punish the nation where they are slaves. Then your descendants will leave that land, taking great wealth with them.
1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and water jug that were near Saul's head, and they left. No one saw them or knew about it or woke up, because the Lord had put them sound asleep.
Job 33:15
He speaks in a dream or a vision of the night when people are in a deep sleep, lying on their beds.
Acts 20:9
A young man named Eutychus was sitting in the window. As Paul continued talking, Eutychus was falling into a deep sleep. Finally, he went sound asleep and fell to the ground from the third floor. When they picked him up, he was dead.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Absalom sent for Ahithophel, the Gilonite, David's counsellor,.... To advise with about this treasonable affair he was engaged in, and to get out of him David's secrets, who was reckoned the best counsellor in the land; and he might rather hope he would come to him, if he was the grandfather of Bathsheba, as say the Jews, 2 Samuel 11:3; since he might be disgusted with and resent David's adultery with Bathsheba his granddaughter, and the murder of her husband Uriah: him he sent for,

from his city, [even] from Giloh; a city in the tribe of Judah, in the mountainous part of it, near to Hebron, where Absalom now was; and, according to Bunting i, twenty miles from Jerusalem, see

Joshua 15:48;

while he offered sacrifices; not Ahithophel, but Absalom, his peace offerings at Hebron, to which he invited Ahithophel to come and partake of:

and the conspiracy was strong; or there was a great number in the conspiracy, who were assembled together:

for the people increased continually with Absalom; being drawn to him by the comeliness of his person, his affable behaviour, the pomp and magnificence in which he appeared, the great number of the principal inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and he the king's eldest son, and so heir to the crown; whereas it might begin to be rumoured about, that David designed Solomon, a son of Bathsheba, a young prince, to be his successor, which did not meet with general approbation at first.

i Travels, &c. p. 149.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ahithophel - It has been with great probability supposed that Ahithophel was estranged from David by personal resentment for his conduct in the matter of Bath-sheba and Uriah (see 2 Samuel 11:3).

While he offered sacrifices - Rather, that Absalom sent for Ahithophel to be present when he offered the sacrifices; the intention being that all who partook of the sacrifice should be bound together to prosecute the enterprise. Absalom, too, would take advantage of the excitement of the great feast to inflame the ardour of the guests, and pledge them irrevocably to his cause.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 15:12. Sent for Ahithophel — When Absalom got him, he in effect got the prime minister of the kingdom to join him.


 
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