2 Samuel 17:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.

2 Samuel 17:26 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 3:15
And I gave Gilead unto Machir.
Numbers 32:1-42
Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle; …
Joshua 17:1
There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.

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…