2 Samuel 15:11

Contextual Overview

⁷When four years had passed, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I made to the Lord. ⁷ It happened at the end of forty years, that Avshalom said to the king, please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the LORD, in Hevron. ⁷ And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the Lord , in Hebron. ⁷ It happened at the end of four years that Absalom said to the king, "Please let me go and pay my vow which I have made to Yahweh in Hebron, ⁷ And at the end of four years Absalom said to the king, "Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the Lord , in Hebron. ⁷ After four years Absalom said to King David, "Please let me go to Hebron. I want to carry out my promise that I made to the Lord ⁷ After four years Absalom said to the king, "Let me go and repay my vow that I made to the Lord while I was in Hebron. ⁷And after four years, Absalom said to the king, "Please let me go and pay my vow which I have made to the LORD at Hebron [my birthplace]. ⁷ Now it came about at the end of four years that Absalom said to the king, "Please let me go and pay my vow which I have made to the LORD, in Hebron. ⁷ And after fourtie yeeres, Absalom sayd vnto the King, I pray thee, let me go to Hebron, and render my vowe which I haue vowed vnto the Lorde.

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called: 1 Samuel 9:13, 1 Samuel 16:3-5

their simplicity: Genesis 20:5, 1 Samuel 22:15, Proverbs 14:15, Proverbs 22:3, Matthew 10:16, Romans 16:18, Romans 16:19

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 1:9 - called 1 Kings 22:34 - at a venture 2 Chronicles 18:33 - at a venture

Cross-References

Psalms 119:13
With my lips I proclaimall the judgments from your mouth.

Psalms 119:13
With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.

Psalms 119:13
With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.

Psalms 119:13
With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth.

Psalms 119:13
My lips will tell about all the laws you have spoken.

Psalms 119:13
With my lips I proclaim all the regulations you have revealed.

Psalms 119:13
With my lips I have told of All the ordinances of Your mouth.

Psalms 119:13
With my lips I have told of All the ordinances of Your mouth.

Psalms 119:13
With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.

Psalms 119:13
With my lippes haue I declared all the iudgements of thy mouth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, [that were] called,.... Invited by him to go with him and partake of his peace offerings, as the payment of his vow in Hebron; part of which was made a feast of for his friends, whomsoever he should think fit to invite, as he did to the number of two hundred, and for the entertainment of whom a large provision ought to be made; the Jews h have a tradition, that he had leave of his father only to invite two to go with him, and that he asked two more unknown to the first, and so on, two after two, until they amounted to two hundred:

and they went in their simplicity; to partake of the feast of the peace offerings, to which they were invited; being quite harmless and upright in their intentions, having no thought of disloyalty and rebellion in their breasts:

and they knew not anything; of an intended conspiracy; howbeit, doubtless many of them were drawn into it when got thither; and as these may be supposed to be some of the principal men of Jerusalem, it was a great weakening of David's interest, and laid a considerable foundation for Absalom to begin upon.

h Bemidbar Rabba, sect. 9. fol. 194. 4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 15:11. Went two hundred men — These were probably soldiers, whom he supposed would be of considerable consequence to him. They had been seduced by his specious conduct, but knew nothing of his present design.