2 Samuelova 15:12

Croatian Bible

Abšalom posla i po Gilonjanina Ahitofela, Davidova savjetnika, iz njegova grada Gilona, da pribiva prinošenju žrtava. Urota je bila jaka, a mnoštvo Abšalomovih pristaša sve je više raslo.

Bible Verse Review
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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

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.