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2 Samuel 17:11

Sebab itu kunasihatkan: Suruhlah seluruh Israel dari Dan sampai Bersyeba berkumpul kepadamu, seperti pasir di tepi laut banyaknya dan engkau sendiri juga harus turut bertempur.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ahithophel;   Armies;   Council;   Diplomacy;   Falsehood;   Friendship;   Spies;   Strategy;   War;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prudence;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ahithophel;   Amasa;   Hushai;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Absalom;   Beersheba;   Dan;   Kadesh-barnea;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Friend, Friendship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ahithophel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Face;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ahithophel;   General;   Predestination;   Samuel, Books of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ahithophel ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Absalom;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ahith'ophel;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Sand;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Beersheba;   General;   Sand;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Beer-sheba;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Absalom;   Beer-Sheba;   Dan;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sebab itu kunasihatkan: Suruhlah seluruh Israel dari Dan sampai Bersyeba berkumpul kepadamu, seperti pasir di tepi laut banyaknya dan engkau sendiri juga harus turut bertempur.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tetapi pada bicara patik ini, baiklah dengan segera dihimpunkan kepada tuanku segala orang Israel dari Dan datang ke Birsyeba, seperti pasir di tepi laut banyaknya, dan hendaklah tuanku sendiripun bersama-sama pergi perang.

Contextual Overview

1 Ahithophel also said vnto Absalom: Let me choose out now twelue thousand men, and I wil vp and folowe after Dauid this night: 2 And I wil come vpo him whyle he is weery and weake handed, and will feare him: And all the people that are with him, shall flee, and so will I smite the king only, 3 And wil bring againe all the people vnto thee: and when al shall returne, the man whom thou sekest [beyng slayne] all the people shalbe in peace. 4 And the saying pleased Absalom wel and al the elders of Israel. 5 Then sayde Absalom: Cal nowe Husai the Arachite also, and let vs heare lykewyse what he sayth. 6 When Husai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake vnto him, saying: Ahithophel hath geuen such counsel: Shal we do after his saying, or no? tell thou. 7 Husai aunswered vnto Absalom: The counsel that Ahithophel hath geuen, is not good at this time. 8 For sayde Husai, thou knowest thy father & his men howe that they be strong men, and they be chased in their mindes, and are euen as a Beare robbed of her whelpes in the fielde: Thy father is a man also practised in warre, and wil not lodge with the people. 9 Behold he is hyd nowe in some caue, or in some other place: And though some of his men be ouerthrowen at the first brunt, yet they that heare it, will say: The people that foloweth Absalom, be put to the worse. 10 And he also that is valiaunt, whose heart is as ye heart of a Lio, shal shrink and faynt: For all Israel knoweth, that thy father is a mightie man, and they which be with him are stout men.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

all Israel: 2 Samuel 24:2, Judges 20:1

as the sand: Genesis 13:16, Genesis 22:17, Joshua 11:4, 1 Kings 4:20, 1 Kings 20:10

thou go: Heb. they face, or presence

go: etc

in thine: 2 Samuel 12:28, Psalms 7:15, Psalms 7:16, Psalms 9:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:31 - Beersheba Judges 18:29 - Dan 1 Samuel 3:20 - Dan 1 Samuel 23:23 - I will search 2 Samuel 3:10 - from Dan 2 Samuel 18:2 - I will surely 1 Kings 4:25 - from Dan 1 Chronicles 21:2 - Beersheba Psalms 3:1 - how Hebrews 11:12 - as the sand

Cross-References

Genesis 17:25
Ismael his sonne was thirtie yere old when he was circumcised in the fleshe of his foreskynne.
Genesis 17:27
And all the men of his house, borne in his house, or bought with money of straungers were circumcised with him.
Exodus 4:25
And Sephora toke a stone, and cut away the foreskin of her sonne, and cast it at his feete, and sayd: a blooddy husbande art thou vnto me.
Exodus 12:48
If a straunger also dwell among you, and wyl holde passouer vnto the Lord, let him circumcise all that be males, and then let him come and obserue it, and he shalbe as one that is borne in the lande: for no vncircumcised person shall eate therof.
Deuteronomy 10:16
Circumcise therefore the foreskinne of your heart, and be no more stifnecked.
Joshua 5:3
And Iosuah made him sharpe kniues, and circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of the foreskinnes.
2 Samuel 3:14
And Dauid sent messengers to Isboseth Sauls sonne, saying: Deliuer me my wife Michol, whiche I maried for an hundred foreskinnes of ye Philistines.
Acts 7:8
And he gaue hym the couenaunt of circumcision: And he begate Isaac, and circumcised hym the eyght day, and Isaac [begate] Iacob, and Iacob [begate] the twelue patriarkes.
Romans 4:11
And he receaued the signe of circumcision, as the seale of the ryghteousnesse of fayth, whiche he had yet beyng vncircumcised, that he shoulde be the father of al them that beleue, though they be not circumcised, that ryghteousnes myght be imputed vnto them also.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore I counsel,.... My advice is as follows:

that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that [is] by the sea for multitude: not all the inhabitants of the land, but such as are fit to bear arms, or that were soldiers, employed in military affairs, in keeping garrisons, guarding the coasts, c. even the militia of the nation, from the extreme boundary of it on the north to the extreme boundary of it on the south in such a direction lay Dan and Beersheba. This is opposed to the counsel of Ahithophel, which was only to select twelve thousand men, and send them against David at once; and this is designed chiefly to gain time, since such a collection could not be made soon, and so David would have more time to get farther off, and to prepare the better for his defence; and this advice might be the more agreeable to Absalom, as it promised a greater certainty of success through numbers, and might feed the vanity and ambition of that prince to have such a large army under him, as well as suggested that all Israel were on his side, and at his command, and might easily be gathered to him:

and that thou go to battle in thine own person; this was another part of his advice opposed to the counsel of Ahithophel, who proposed to have the command of the twelve thousand men himself, and to leave Absalom at Jerusalem; now Hushai suggests that it would be more to his interest and his honour to take command of the army himself, and go in person into the field of battle; since this would serve to animate his soldiers, when they saw their prince at the head of them, and he would have the glory of the victory, which he might insinuate hereby Ahithophel sought to deprive him of: it is in the Hebrew text, that "thy face" or "faces go to battle" m, where he might be seen in person, and have the oversight and direction of things himself; the Targum is,

"and thou shalt go at the head of us all;''

and this advice Hushai was directed to give, and which was taken, that Absalom might fall in battle.

m פניך הלכים "facies tuae euntes", Montanus, "facies tua vadat", Pagninus.


 
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