2 Samuel 15:23

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
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all the country: Romans 12:15

the brook: The brook Kidron, which is but a few paces broad, runs along the valley of Jehoshaphat, east of Jerusalem, to the south-west corner of the city, and then, turning to the south-east, empties itself into the Dead Sea. Like the Ilissus, it is dry at least nine months in the year, being only furnished with water in the winter, and after heavy rains: its bed is narrow and deep, which indicates that it must formerly have been the channel for waters which have found some other, and probably subterraneous course.

Kidron: 1 Kings 2:37, John 18:1, Cedron

the wilderness: 2 Samuel 16:2, Matthew 3:1, Matthew 3:3, Luke 1:80

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 15:28 - General 1 Kings 15:13 - the brook 2 Kings 23:4 - Kidron 2 Chronicles 30:14 - the brook Nehemiah 2:15 - the brook Isaiah 15:5 - with Jeremiah 31:40 - the brook

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all the country wept with a loud voice,.... The people that came out of the country villages round about, upon the report of the king's leaving Jerusalem, because of his son's conspiracy against him; these wept when they saw him in the circumstances in which he was, obliged to fly from a rebellious son:

and all the people passed over; the people that were with David passed over Kidron, and so the Cherethites, and Pelethites:

the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron; this explains what place it was they passed over, which is not before mentioned, but is particularly named in the account of the king's passing over it; over which same brook the Messiah, his antitype, passed a little before his sufferings and death; of which brook, :-. It is often by Josephus m called a valley, sometimes a brook, it having little water, except in winter; Mr. Maundrell n says, it ran along the bottom of the valley of Jehoshaphat, a brook in the wintertime; but without the least drop of water in it all the time, says he, we were in Jerusalem; and so Reland o, that in summertime it ceases to be a river, and has the name of a valley; and Le Bruyn says p, it is at present dried up; it runs along the valley of Jehoshaphat, and is not above three paces broad; it has no other but rain water, which flows from the adjacent hills:

and all the people passed over to the way of the wilderness; which lay between Jerusalem and Jericho.

m Antiqu. l. 8. c. 1. sect. 5. & l. 9. c. 7. sect. 3. De Bello Jud. l. 5. c. 2. sect. 3. c. 4. sect. 2. c. 6. sect. 1. n Journey from Aleppo, &c. p. 102. o Palestin. Illustrat. tom. 1. p. 294, 351. p Voyage to the Levant, ch. 48. p. 188.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 15:23. The brook Kidron — This was an inconsiderable brook, and only furnished with water in winter, and in the rains. See John 18:1.