2 Samuel 13:34

La Bible David Martin

Or Absalom s'enfuit, mais celui qui était en sentinelle levant les yeux, regarda; et voici, un grand peuple venait par le chemin de derrière lui, à côté de la montagne.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Or Absalom s'était enfui. Et le jeune homme qui était en sentinelle, leva les yeux et regarda; et voici que par la route opposée une grande troupe s'avançait sur le flanc de la montagne.

Darby's French Translation
Et Absalom s'enfuit. Et le jeune homme qui était en sentinelle leva ses yeux et regarda; et voici, un grand peuple venait par le chemin qui était derrière lui, du côté de la montagne.

Louis Segond (1910)
Absalom prit la fuite. Or le jeune homme placé en sentinelle leva les yeux et regarda. Et voici, une grande troupe venait par le chemin qui était derrière lui, du côté de la montagne.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Absalom fled: 2 Samuel 13:38, Genesis 4:8-14, Proverbs 28:17, Amos 5:19

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 9:17 - a watchman

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Absalom fled,.... He who promised his servants protection could not protect himself, and who no doubt fled with him; he knew what he had done was death by law, and that there was no city of refuge for such sort of murder as this, and he had no reason to hope the king would suffer so foul a crime as this to pass unpunished:

and the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked: to the way that led from Absalom's house to Jerusalem, to see if he could spy any other messenger on the road from thence:

and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him; that is, behind the watchman, who, looking round him, saw them; these people were the king's sons and their attendants, who, being at some distance, the young man could not discern who they were; they did not come the direct road from Absalom's house, but came a round about way, for fear, as R. Isaiah rightly conjectures, lest Absalom should pursue, or send pursuers after them, and slay them; though others, as Kimchi, think this refers to the hill, and that the sense is, that the watchman saw them coming from the way which was behind the hill, and began to see them when they came to the side of it, which was the way that led to the city, surrounded by mountains, see Psalms 125:2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Absalom fled - This is the sequel to 2 Samuel 13:29. The king’s sons rose from table and fled, and Absalom taking advantage of the confusion, also escaped and fled. This information is inserted here to account for the king’s sons returning unmolested.