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17And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and tarried in a place that was far off.

2 Samuel 15:17

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 13-23)

Here is, I. The notice brought to David of Absalom’s rebellion, 2 Sam. 15:13. The matter was bad enough, and yet it seems to have been made worse to him (as such things commonly are) than really it was; for he was told that the hearts of the men of Israel (that is, the generality of them, at least the leading men) were after Absalom . But David was the more apt to believe it because now he could c...

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