2 Samuel 17:12

Contextual Overview

¹ Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: ¹ Now Ahithophel urged Absalom, "Let me choose 12,000 men to start out after David tonight. ¹ Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: ¹ Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me choose twelve thousand men and chase David tonight. ¹ Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me pick out twelve thousand men. Then I will go and pursue David this very night. ¹ Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night; ¹ Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: ¹Then, Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Please let me choose 12,000 men, and I will set out and pursue David tonight. ¹ Moreover, Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight. ¹ Therfor Achitofel seide to Absolon, Y schal chese twelue thousynde of men `to me, and Y schal rise, and pursue Dauid in this nyyt.

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in some place: 1 Samuel 23:23

we will light: This is a very beautiful and expressive figure. The dew in Palestine, and other warm climates, falls fast, sudden, and heavy; and it falls upon every spot of earth, so that not a blade of grass escapes it. It is therefore no inapt emblem of a numerous and active army; and it was, perhaps, for this reason that the Romans called their light armed forces rorarii. 1 Kings 20:10, 2 Kings 18:23, 2 Kings 19:24, Isaiah 10:13, Isaiah 10:14, Obadiah 1:3

Reciprocal: Psalms 71:4 - out of the

Cross-References

Genesis 17:22
When he had finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

Genesis 17:22
And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

Genesis 17:22
After God finished talking with Abraham, God rose and left him.

Genesis 17:22
When he finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.

Genesis 17:22
And he ceased talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

Genesis 17:22
When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

Genesis 17:22
And God finished speaking with him and went up from Abraham.

Genesis 17:22
And whanne the word of the spekere with hym was endid, God stiede fro Abraham.

Genesis 17:22
and He finisheth speaking with him, and God goeth up from Abraham.

Genesis 17:22
When He had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found,.... For such a numerous army, which would be spread abroad, could not well fail of finding him out, let him be in what lurking place he would; whereas he might lie concealed, and escape so small a number as twelve thousand men:

and we will light upon him as the dew falleth upon the ground; whose drops are innumerable, and cover all the ground where they fall; and the phrase not only expresses their numbers, but the irresistible force they should come with, and the manner, secretly, unawares, opportunely; the Romans had a sort of soldiers, called from the dew "rorarii", who carried light armour, and fought first in the battle, from whence they had their name, because dew falls before it rains n:

and of him, and of all the men that [are] with him, there shall not be left so much as one; so that for the future Absalom would sit easy upon the throne, there being none left to molest him.

n Valtrinus de Milit. Roman. l. 3. c. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As the dew - Like the drops of dew, in the vast number of our host, and in our irresistible and unavoidable descent upon our enemies.