2 Samuel 15:22

Contextual Overview

¹³A messenger came and told David, "The hearts of the men of Israel are with Absalom." ¹³ A messenger came and told David, "The hearts of the people of Israel are with Absalom." ¹³Then an informant came to David, saying, "The hearts of the men of Israel have followed Absalom." ¹³ Then a messenger came to David, saying, "The hearts of the men of Israel are with Absalom." ¹³ And ther came a messenger to Dauid, and sayde: The heartes of the men of Israel are turned after Absalom. ¹³ A man came in to tell the news to David. The man said, "The people of Israel are beginning to follow Absalom." ¹³ And a messenger came to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Absalom. ¹³ And a messenger came to David, saying, "The hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Ab'salom." ¹³ There came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom. ¹³ And there came a messenger to Dauid, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and all the little: Sir John Chardin informs us,in a manuscript note on this place, that it is usual with the greatest part of the eastern people, especially the Arabs, to carry their whole family with them when they go to war. 2 Samuel 15:22

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And David said unto Ittai, go, and pass over,.... It being his resolution to abide with him, he urged him no more to depart, but bid him pass over the brook Kidron before him:

and Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men; the six hundred Gittites that were under his command:

and all the little ones that [were] with him; that belonged to him and his men, and no doubt their wives also.