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2 Samuel 19:15

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So the king returned, and when he arrived at the Jordan, the men of Judah came to Gilgal to meet him and escort him across the Jordan.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.

KJV

So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan.

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This verse in 2 Samuel 19

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Perhaps Jordan was never passed with so much solemnity, nor with so many remarkable occurrences, as it was now, since Israel passed it under Joshua. David, in his afflictive flight, remembered God particularly from the land of Jordan ( Ps. xlii. 6 ), and now that land, more than any other, was graced with the glories of his return.

This site's exposition

came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king

on 2 Samuel 19:15-18

The crossing at Jordan draws a company from every side: a thousand men of Benjamin under Shimei, Ziba with his fifteen sons and twenty servants, and a ferry boat to carry the king's household over, the first mention of such a vessel anywhere in Scripture. Henry calls the crossing the most solemn since Joshua led Israel over the same river, and notes that David had already remembered Jordan from exile at Psalm 42:6. Two men who had wronged David in his flight, Shimei and Ziba, are both named here crossing to meet him now that he returns.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

So the king returned, and came to Jordan,....

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

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Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Samuel 19:14:1, via Sefaria, The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

16 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.

  • וַיָּ֣שָׁבand he returned

    vaiyashovH7725 →1056 times

  • הַמֶּ֔לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • וַיָּבֹ֖אand he came

    vaiyavo'H935 →2568 times

  • עַד־to

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • הַיַּרְדֵּ֑ןthe Jordan

    haiyardenH3383 →182 times

  • וִיהוּדָ֞הand Judah

    vihudahH3063 →819 times

  • בָּ֣אit came

    ba'H935 →2568 times

  • הַגִּלְגָּ֗לָה<the> Gilgal towards

    hagilgalahH1537 →

  • לָלֶ֙כֶת֙to go

    lalekhetH1980 →1546 times

  • לִקְרַ֣אתto meet

    likratH7122 →139 times

  • הַמֶּ֔לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • לְהַעֲבִ֥ירto bring over

    lehaavirH5674 →556 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַמֶּ֖לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַיַּרְדֵּֽן׃the Jordan

    haiyardenH3383 →182 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

5 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 5:9

    Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” So that place has been called Gilgal to this day.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 4:19

      On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

    • 1 Samuel 17:26

      David asked the men who were standing with him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Just who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he…

    • Genesis 34:14

      “We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.

    • Leviticus 24:14

      “Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.

    • Jeremiah 9:25

      “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised yet uncircumcised:

About 2 Samuel

David Mourns the Death of Absalom — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
David Mourns the Death of Absalom — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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