2 Samuel 16:22

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ And Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him. ¹⁵ Meanwhile, Absalom and all the army of Israel arrived at Jerusalem, accompanied by Ahithophel. ¹⁵ And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him. ¹⁵ Meanwhile, Absalom, Ahithophel, and all the Israelites arrived at Jerusalem. ¹⁵ Now when Absalom and all the men of Israel arrived in Jerusalem, Ahithophel was with him. ¹⁵ And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him. ¹⁵ Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him. ¹⁵Then Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, entered Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him. ¹⁵ Now Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him. ¹⁵ Forsothe Absolon, and al the puple of Israel entriden in to Jerusalem, but also Achitofel with hym.

Bible Verse Review
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the top: 2 Samuel 11:2

went in: 2 Samuel 12:11, 2 Samuel 12:12, 2 Samuel 15:16, 2 Samuel 20:3, Numbers 25:6, Isaiah 3:9, Jeremiah 3:3, Jeremiah 8:12, Ezekiel 24:7, Philippians 3:19

Reciprocal: Genesis 35:22 - lay with Genesis 38:26 - And he knew Leviticus 18:8 - General Deuteronomy 27:20 - General Judges 19:1 - a concubine 2 Samuel 3:7 - gone in 1 Kings 2:21 - Let Abishag Psalms 55:10 - mischief Psalms 71:4 - out of the Ezekiel 22:10 - discovered 1 Corinthians 5:1 - that one

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So they spread Absalom a tent on the top of the house,.... On the top of his father's palace; this, as houses in Jerusalem and Judea were, was built flat, Deuteronomy 22:8; and it was on the very spot from whence David had a sight of Bathsheba, and conceived an impure lust after her. The Targum renders it, a canopy; which Kimchi describes as consisting of four pillars, upon and round about which curtains were hung:

and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel; they saw the tent or canopy erected, and saw him go into it, and might reasonably conclude he lay with his father's concubines, or half wives, in it; and this being done in so public a manner fulfilled the prophecy, which said it should be done in the sight of the sun, and of all Israel, 2 Samuel 12:11; this shows how corrupt the people of Israel were at this time, at least those that were with Absalom, that there should be none to object to the counsel Ahithophel gave, nor any to remonstrate against the execution of it, but all seemed to look upon it with pleasure; nor even did Hushai, David's friend, oppose it; perhaps he saw it was to no purpose.