2 Samuel 17:24 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁴Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

2 Samuel 17:24 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 2:8
But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
Genesis 32:2
And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
Joshua 13:26
And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 24)

24. Then David came to Mahanaim--in the high eastern country of Gilead, the seat of Ish-bosheth’s government. Absalom passed over Jordan--It is not said how long an interval elapsed, but there must have been sufficient time to make the intended levy throughout the kingdom.