7Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.
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My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.
Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Which way David raised an army here, and what reinforcements were sent him, we are not told; many, it is likely, from all the coasts of Israel, at least from the neighbouring tribes, came in to his assistance, so that, by degrees, he was able to make head against Absalom, as Ahithophel foresaw. Now here we have, I. His army numbered and marshalled, 2 Sam. 18:1 , 2 . He had, no doubt, committed his…
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