撒母耳记下 17:23

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

亞希多弗見自己的謀略不被採納，就預備了驢子，起程往本城自己的家去。他安排好了家裡的事，就上吊死了，埋葬在他父親的墳墓裡。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
亚 希 多 弗 见 不 依 从 他 的 计 谋 ， 就 备 上 驴 ， 归 回 本 城 ； 到 了 家 ， 留 下 遗 言 ， 便 吊 死 了 ， 葬 在 他 父 亲 的 坟 墓 里 。

Contextual Overview

²² So David and all his people crossed the Jordan River. By dawn, everyone had crossed the Jordan. ²³ When Ahithophel saw that the Israelites did not accept his advice, he saddled his donkey and went to his hometown. He left orders for his family and property, and then he hanged himself. He died and was buried in his father's tomb. ²⁴ David arrived at Mahanaim. And Absalom and all his Israelites crossed over the Jordan River. ²⁵ Absalom had made Amasa captain of the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Jether the Ishmaelite. Amasa's mother was Abigail daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother. ²⁶ Absalom and the Israelites camped in the land of Gilead. ²⁷ Shobi, Makir, and Barzillai were at Mahanaim when David arrived. Shobi son of Nahash was from the Ammonite town of Rabbah. Makir son of Ammiel was from Lo Debar, and Barzillai was from Rogelim in Gilead. ²⁸ They brought beds, bowls, clay pots, wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, small peas, ²⁹ honey, milk curds, sheep, and cheese made from cows' milk for David and his people. They said, "The people are hungry and tired and thirsty in the desert."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

saw: Proverbs 16:18, Proverbs 19:3

followed: Heb. done

his city: 2 Samuel 15:12

put his household in order: Heb. gave charge concerning his house, 2 Kings 20:1

and hanged: 2 Samuel 15:31, 1 Samuel 31:4, 1 Samuel 31:5, 1 Kings 16:18, Job 31:3, Psalms 5:10, Psalms 55:23, Matthew 27:5

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 16:23 - all the counsel 2 Samuel 18:9 - his head 2 Samuel 21:6 - hang 2 Samuel 23:34 - Eliam 2 Kings 19:20 - which thou hast 1 Chronicles 10:4 - Saul took 1 Chronicles 27:33 - Ahithophel Esther 6:12 - hasted to his house Job 5:13 - taketh Job 7:15 - chooseth Job 12:17 - General Psalms 9:5 - destroyed Psalms 33:10 - The Lord Psalms 35:8 - into Psalms 37:15 - sword Psalms 55:15 - Let death Psalms 109:20 - Let this Psalms 119:96 - I have seen Psalms 146:9 - the way Proverbs 11:5 - direct Ecclesiastes 9:11 - that the race Ecclesiastes 10:8 - that Isaiah 8:10 - counsel Isaiah 19:3 - and I Isaiah 37:21 - Whereas Isaiah 38:1 - Set thine house in order Isaiah 44:25 - turneth Acts 16:27 - he drew 1 Corinthians 1:20 - hath 1 Corinthians 3:19 - He 2 Corinthians 7:10 - the sorrow Galatians 3:13 - for

Cross-References

Genesis 17:2
I will make an agreement between us, and I will make you the ancestor of many people."

Genesis 17:9
Then God said to Abraham, "You and your descendants must keep this agreement from now on.

Genesis 17:10
This is my agreement with you and all your descendants, which you must obey: Every male among you must be circumcised.

Genesis 17:12
From now on when a baby boy is eight days old, you will circumcise him. This includes any boy born among your people or any who is your slave, who is not one of your descendants.

Genesis 17:14
Any male who is not circumcised will be cut off from his people, because he has broken my agreement."

Genesis 17:18
Then Abraham said to God, "Please let Ishmael be the son you promised."

Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, Sarah your wife will have a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will make my agreement with him to be an agreement that continues forever with all his descendants.

Genesis 17:25
And Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised.

Genesis 17:26
Abraham and his son were circumcised on the same day.

Genesis 17:27
Also on that day all the men in Abraham's camp were circumcised, including all those born in his camp and all the slaves he had bought from other nations.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed,.... But that of Hushai:

he saddled [his] ass; or ordered it to be saddled:

and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city; which was Giloh in the tribe of Judah, 2 Samuel 15:12;

and put his household in order; made his will, and disposed of his estates, see Isaiah 38:1; or "commanded his house" or "household" t; gave orders and instructions, both relating to himself when dead, where and how he should be buried, and to his family, how they should behave to one another and among their neighbours, and towards their superiors; and particularly, the Jews say u, he gave them this charge, not to rebel against the government of the house of David:

and hanged himself; so to his other sins added that of suicide, which was done deliberately, as the preceding clause shows; this he did, partly because his proud spirit could not bear it that his counsel should be slighted, and that of another be preferred to it; and partly because he plainly foresaw that the cause of Absalom would be ruined by neglecting his counsel and following that of Hushai's, whereby he himself would fall into the hands of David, and be put to death by him as a traitor; and he chose to die by his own hand, and not his; and the rather, to prevent the confiscation of his goods and estates as a traitor, and his heirs being deprived of them; though some think he died of a disease, by strangling or suffocation in the throat, was choked through grief and trouble; so R. Elias observes w, that some say that this disease came upon him through the greatness of his grief of mind and trouble of soul, because his counsel was not taken, and he died of strangling; and they say this, because they reckon it an absurdity for so wise and understanding a man as he was to hang himself; but the case seems very clear that he did kill himself; the Jews say x he was but thirty three years of age when he died; for being a bloody and deceitful man, he did not live out half his days, Psalms 55:23; which psalm was penned on his account; but one so young could hardly be a counsellor of David, and so famous for his wise counsel; and besides, if so young, could not be the grandfather of Bathsheba, as the Jews say:

and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father; though he died an ignominious death, he had an honourable burial; it perhaps not being usual in those times to put any mark of infamy on those that killed themselves, by refusing them interment in the common burying places of their friends and neighbours.

t יצו אל ביתו "praecepit ad domum suam", Montanus. u T. Hieros. Sanhedrin, fol. 29. 1. w In Tishbi, p. 129. & David de Pomis, Lexic. fol. 148. 2. x T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 106. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To his city - To Giloh (marginal reference). Ahithophel was probably influenced by deep mortification at the slight put upon him by rejecting his counsel. He is a memorable example of the impotence of worldly wisdom. Compare the marginal reference.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 17:23. Put his household in order — This self-murder could not be called lunacy, as every step to it was deliberate. He foresaw Absalom's ruin; and he did not choose to witness it, and share in the disgrace: and he could expect no mercy at the hands of David. He was a very bad man, and died an unprepared and accursed death.