Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Samuel 18:7
Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand [men].
Verse 7. Twenty thousand men.] Whether these were slain on the field of battle, or whether they were reckoned with those slain in the wood of Ephraim, we know not.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
The people of Israel, i.e. the soldiers of Absalom; so called, partly to note that all Israel (some few excepted) were engaged in this rebellion, which made Davids deliverance more glorious and remarkable; and partly in opposition to Davids men, who, as to the main body, or most considerable part, were of the tribe of Judah, or had followed him from Judah.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
7. the people of Israel wereslainThis designation, together with the immense slaughtermentioned later, shows the large extent to which the people wereenlisted in this unhappy civil contest.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David,…. That is, the people of Israel that were under Absalom, these were beaten by David’s army:
and there was a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand [men]; including both those that fell in the field of battle, and that were slain in the pursuit; and this is to be understood only of Absalom’s party.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(7) Twenty Thousand.This number seems large, but we really know nothing of the size of the forces engaged on either side; and if the phrase that day be taken, as often, with sufficient latitude to include the whole campaign of which this battle was the culmination, there is nothing surprising in the destruction of 20,000 men. Of the human causes of the victory nothing is told. We may assume that the advantage of thorough military organisation and generalship was on Davids side; but, in addition to this, was the vast power of the right, the prestige of law and authority.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
7. Twenty thousand Surely the multitude that followed Absalom must have been like the sand of the sea. 2Sa 17:11.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
2Sa 18:7 Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand [men].
Ver. 7. Where the people of Israel were slain. ] For a just reward of their unjust rebellion: besides a great sort of them who having tasted of the sweetness of war, dulce bellum inexpertis, threw down their arms, and ran home ad beatos rastros, benedictura aratrum, sanctamque stivam, a as the divine chronologer saith of the seditious boors of Germany beaten by the princes, together with Munzer, their general, who was taken and executed according to his deserts.
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Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
the people: 2Sa 2:17, 2Sa 15:6, 2Sa 19:41-43
a great: Pro 11:21, Pro 24:21
twenty thousand men: 2Sa 2:26, 2Sa 2:31, 2Ch 13:16, 2Ch 13:17, 2Ch 28:6
Reciprocal: 1Sa 4:10 – a very great Psa 3:6 – ten Psa 18:38 – General Pro 24:22 – their Ecc 4:16 – they also