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2 Samuel 17:26

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So the Israelites and Absalom camped in the land of Gilead.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.

KJV

So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.

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This verse in 2 Samuel 17

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead. Which belonged to the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh; here the Israelites that were with Absalom encamped, in order to give battle to David and his men.

This site's exposition

Then David came to Mahanaim

on 2 Samuel 17:24-26

David reaches Mahanaim, the strong city across Jordan that had already sheltered Ish-bosheth in the civil war after Saul's death, while Absalom crosses behind him with the levy Hushai's counsel raised. Absalom replaces Joab with Amasa as captain of the host; the two commanders are cousins, Amasa's mother Abigail and Joab's mother Zeruiah both counted among Jesse's household, so the rebellion is a family quarrel fought with family generals on both sides. The appointment does not survive the war: Joab kills Amasa at Gibeon in chapter 20.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It was not long since that Absalom himself fled for a crime, and David contented himself with his being an exile, though he deserved death, nay, he mourned and longed for him; but so perfectly void of all natural affection is this ungrateful Absalom that he eagerly thirsts after his own father's blood.

The words behind it

5 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּ֤חַןand it encamped

    vaiyichanH2583 →143 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵל֙Israel

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וְאַבְשָׁלֹ֔םand Absalom

    veavshalomH53 →110 times

  • אֶ֖רֶץ[the] land of

    ʾeretzH776 →2504 times

  • הַגִּלְעָֽד׃ ס<the> Gilead

    hagiladH1568 →134 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

7 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Joshua 17:1

    Now this was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph’s firstborn son, namely for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh and father of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because Machir…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 26:29

      These were the descendants of Manasseh: The Machirite clan from Machir, the father of Gilead, and the Gileadite clan from Gilead.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Genesis 50:23

      He saw Ephraim’s sons to the third generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph’s knees.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Genesis 41:51

      Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”

    • Genesis 46:20

      Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 3:15

    To Machir I gave Gilead,

    it leads to

    • Numbers 32:39–40

      The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it, and drove out the Amorites who were there.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Joshua 22:7

      (To the half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given land in Bashan, and to the other half Joshua gave land on the west side of the Jordan among their brothers.) When Joshua sent them to…

    • Joshua 17:1–3

      Now this was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph’s firstborn son, namely for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh and father of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because Machir…

About 2 Samuel

David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
2 Samuel: the study guide →Read 2 Samuel 17 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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