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2 Samuel 15:1
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Sesudah itu Absalom menyediakan baginya sebuah kereta serta kuda dan lima puluh orang yang berlari di depannya.
Bermula, maka kemudian dari pada itu disuruh Absalom lengkapkan rata dan kuda akan dirinya, dan lagi lima puluh orang yang berlari-lari di hadapannya.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
am 2980, bc 1024
Absalom: 2 Samuel 12:11, Deuteronomy 17:16, 1 Samuel 8:11, 1 Kings 1:5, 1 Kings 1:33, 1 Kings 10:26-29, Psalms 20:7, Proverbs 11:2, Proverbs 16:18, Proverbs 17:19, Jeremiah 22:14-16
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 22:17 - footmen 2 Samuel 3:3 - Absalom 2 Samuel 16:2 - What meanest 1 Kings 14:27 - guard Psalms 3:1 - when Psalms 86:14 - O God Psalms 132:1 - all his afflictions Proverbs 15:5 - fool John 12:15 - sitting
Cross-References
After these thynges, the worde of the Lorde came vnto Abram in a vision, saying: feare not Abram I am thy shielde [and] thy exceedyng great rewarde.
And Abram sayde: Lorde God what wylt thou geue me when I go chyldelesse, the chylde of the stewardship of my house is this Eleazer of Damasco?
And Abram saide: See, to me thou hast geuen no seede: lo [borne] in my house is myne heire.
And beholde, the worde of the Lorde came vnto hym, saying, he shall not be thine heire: but one that shall come out of thine own bowels shalbe thine heire.
And he brought hym out, and sayde: loke vp vnto heauen, and tell the starres, if thou be able to number them. And he sayde vnto hym: euen so shall thy seede be.
And [Abram] beleued the Lord, & that counted he to hym for righteousnesse.
He toke therefore all these vnto hym, and deuided them in the middes, and layde euery peece one ouer agaynst another: but the birdes deuided he not.
But the nation whom they shall serue wyll I iudge: and afterward shall they come out with great substaunce.
But in the fourth generation they shal come hyther agayne: for the wickednesse of the Amorites is not yet full.
And so it was, that when the sonne went downe, and it was twylyght, beholde a smokyng furnesse and a fire brande goyng betweene the said peeces.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And it came to pass after this,.... After the reconciliation of David and Absalom, and the latter was admitted to court again:
that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses; to make himself look grand and respectable among the people; perhaps he got these from his grandfather at Geshur in Syria:
and fifty men to run before him; which added to his pomp and magnificence; and such great personages in later time have had; Nero the Roman emperor never went on a journey with less than a thousand calashes or chariots, and a great number of men that ran before him c: and this was tacitly setting himself up for king, at least preparing for it, as Adonijah afterwards did in the same way and manner, 1 Kings 1:5.
c Suetonius in Vit. Neron. c. 30. Vid. Senecae, Ep. 87. & 123.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And it came to pass ... - The working out of Nathan’s prophecy (marginal reference) is the clue to the course of the narrative. How long after Absalom’s return these events occurred we are not told.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XV
Absalom conspires against his father, and uses various methods
to seduce the people from their allegiance to their king, 14.
Under pretence of paying a vow at Hebron, he obtains leave from
David to go thither; and, by emissaries sent through the land,
prepares the people for revolt, 7-11.
He gains over Ahithophel, David's counsellor, 12.
David is informed of the general defection of the people; on
which he, and his life-guards and friends, leave the city, and
go towards the wilderness, 13-18.
The steadfast friendship of Ittai, the Gittite, 19-22.
David's affecting departure from the city, 23.
He sends Zadok and Abiathar with the ark back to Jerusalem,
24-29.
He goes up Mount Olivet; prays that the counsel of Ahithophel
may be turned into foolishness, 30-31.
He desires Hushai to return to Jerusalem, and to send him word
of all that occurs, 32-37.
NOTES ON CHAP. XV
Verse 2 Samuel 15:1. Absalom prepared him chariots and horses — After all that has been said to prove that horses here mean horsemen, I think it most likely that the writer would have us to understand chariots drawn by horses; not by mules or such like cattle.
Fifty men to run before him. — Affecting in every respect the regal state by this establishment. Of this man Calmet collects the following character: "He was a bold, violent, revengeful, haughty, enterprising, magnificent, eloquent, and popular prince; he was also rich, ambitious, and vain of his personal accomplishments: after the death of Amnon, and his reconciliation to his father, he saw no hindrance in his way to the throne. He despised Solomon because of the meanness of his birth, and his tender years. He was himself of the blood royal, not only by his father David, but also by his mother Maacah, daughter to Talmai, king of Geshur: and, doubtless, in his own apprehension, of sufficient age, authority, and wisdom, to sustain the weight of government. There was properly now no competitor in his way: Amnon, David's first-born, was dead. Of Chileab, his second son by Abigail, we hear nothing; and Absalom was the third: see 2 Samuel 3:2-5. He, therefore, seemed to stand nearest to the throne; but his sin was, that he sought it during his father's life, and endeavoured to dethrone him in order to sit in his stead."
