24Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
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But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;
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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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