2 Samuel 18:23

Contextual Overview

¹⁹ Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that Yahweh has avenged him of his enemies. ¹⁹ Then Zadok's son Ahimaaz said, "Let me run to the king with the good news that the Lord has rescued him from his enemies." ¹⁹ Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged him of his enemies. ¹⁹ Ahimaaz son of Zadok said to Joab, "Let me run and take the news to King David. I'll tell him the Lord has saved him from his enemies." ¹⁹ Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Let me run and give the king the good news that the Lord has vindicated him before his enemies." ¹⁹ Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and inform the king, how the LORD hath avenged himself of his enemies. ¹⁹ Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king news, how that Yahweh has avenged him of his enemies. ¹⁹Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, said, "Let me run and bring the king news that the LORD has vindicated him by rescuing him from [the power of] his enemies." ¹⁹ Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Let me run and carry news to the king that the Lord has delivered him from the hand of his enemies." ¹⁹ Forsothe Achymaas, sone of Sadoch, seide, Y schal renne, and Y schal telle to the kyng, that the Lord hath maad doom to hym of the hond of hise enemyes.

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overran Cushi: John 20:4

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 18:19 - Ahimaaz 1 Kings 11:22 - let me go 2 Kings 2:17 - they urged

Cross-References

Genesis 18:4
Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree,

Genesis 18:4
let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:

Genesis 18:4
I will bring some water so all of you can wash your feet. You may rest under the tree,

Genesis 18:4
Let a little water be brought so that you may all wash your feet and rest under the tree.

Genesis 18:4
Let a little water, I pray you, be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:

Genesis 18:4
Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

Genesis 18:4
"Please let a little water be brought [by one of my servants] and [you may] wash your feet, and recline and rest comfortably under the tree.

Genesis 18:4
but I schal brynge a litil watir, and youre feet be waischid, and reste ye vndur the tre;

Genesis 18:4
let, I pray thee, a little water be accepted, and wash your feet, and recline under the tree;

Genesis 18:4
Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But howsoever ([said he]) let me run,.... Be it as it may, I beg I may have leave; and being so very importunate, it was granted:

and he said unto him, run; since he would take no denial:

then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi; who ran by the way of the mountains; which though the shorter way, that through the plain was easiest, and soonest run, though the longest.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The plain - The floor of the valley through which the Jordan runs. The Cushite did not run by that road, but took the road over the hills, which may well have been the shorter but also the more difficult road. The two roads would probably meet a short distance from Mahanaim. These words, which have been thought to prove that the battle took place on the west of Jordan, are a clear proof that it took place on the east, because if the runners had had to cross the Jordan, they must both have come by the same road, which it is clear they did not.