2 Samuel 18

2 Samuel 18:3

SUccour us] With refreshment, of victuall, men and armes. Or that thou mayest bee readie to relieve us in person, in case of need.

2 Samuel 18:6

Of Ephraim] This place being beyond Jordan, could not belong to the Tribe of Ephraim, which was on this side, but might be thus called for some unknowne reason, as by the accident which is set down, Judges Chapter 12 verses 4, 5.

2 Samuel 18:8

The battell] After the army was discomfited, the chase was spread over all the Countrey: The wood] There dyed more of those which ranne away, and had lost themselves in the wood, and were slaine by the people of the countrey, then there dyed in the battell or in the flight, by the hands of the Souldiers.

2 Samuel 18:9

Caught hold] Either his great haire, 2 Samuel, chapter 14. verse 26. twisted and were wound about the bought, or his head got into some forked limbe of the tree.

2 Samuel 18:13

Falshood] Concealed misdeed, which I should imagine to hide with denials or lies: Against mine] For which offence I should bee questioned for my life: Wouldest have] Thou wouldest have kept thy selfe from mediating for me, or taking my defence upon thee, or sheltering me under thy authority.

2 Samuel 18:14

The heart] The Italian hath it, In the breast] the Hebrew is, the heart, but this word must bee taken here more largely, by reason that, being thus wounded, hee was not yet dead, verse 15.

2 Samuel 18:17

Laid] See of this custome, Joshuah, Chapter 7. verse 26. Lamentations, Chapter 3. v. 53.

2 Samuel 18:18

Had taken] This seemeth to bee inserted, to shew that Absoloms abmbition, in raising a piramides, columne or momument, was punished, in so much as dying in rebellion, hee was also disgracefully buried as a malefactor: Kings dale] Of which vale, see Genesis, Chapter 14. verse 17 I have no] Whereby you may gather his children spoken of, 2 Samuel Chapter 14. verse 27. Were dead.

2 Samuel 18:21

Chushi] The Italian, An Ethiopian] Which might bee some slave belonging to Davids house, verse 29. Others beleeve that the Hebrew word Cushi was his proper name.

2 Samuel 18:24

Betweene the two] For City gates use to bee double, with an entrie or space between them, for the better security or safeguard.

2 Samuel 18:29

The Kings servant] Namely the Ethiopian.