2 Samuel 17:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

2 Samuel 17:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Esther 1:21
And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
Esther 5:14
Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
2 Chronicles 30:4
And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
1 Samuel 23:21
And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion on me.
1 Samuel 18:20-21
And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-14)

Absalom is now in peaceable possession of Jerusalem; the palace-royal is his own, as are the thrones of judgment, even the thrones of the house of David. His good father reigned in Hebron, and only over the tribe of Judah, above seven years, and was not hasty to destroy his rival; his government was built upon a divine promise, the performance of which he was sure of in due time, and therefore he…

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

(vv. 4)

2Sa 17:1-14. Ahithophel’s Counsel Overthrown by Hushai. 1-11. Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom--The recommendation to take prompt and decisive measures before the royalist forces could be collected and arranged, evinced the deep political sagacity of this councillor. The adoption of his advice would have extinguished the cause of David; and it affords a dreadful proof of the extremities to wh…