22Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.
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A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none.
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-29)Here is, I. The transporting of David and his forces over Jordan, pursuant to the advice he had received from his friends at Jerusalem, 2 Sam. 17:22. He, and all that were with him, went over in the night, whether in ferryboats, which probably always plied there, or through the fords, does not appear. But special notice is taken of this, that there lacked not one of them: none deserted him, though…
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