And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
A.M.
2 Samuel 12:11 Thus said the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against you out …
Deuteronomy 17:16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people …
1 Samuel 8:11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign …
1 Kings 1:5,33 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will …
1 Kings 10:26-29 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a …
Psalm 20:7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember …
Proverbs 11:2 When pride comes, then comes shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 17:19 He loves transgression that loves strife: and he that exalts his …
Jeremiah 22:14-16 That said, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cuts …
And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.
And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.
thy matters
Numbers 16:3,13,14 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, …
Psalm 12:2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips …
Daniel 11:21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall …
2 Peter 2:10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, …
there is, etc. or, none will hear thee from the king downward
2 Samuel 8:15 And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and …
Exodus 20:12 Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long on …
Exodus 21:17 And he that curses his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Proverbs 30:11,17 There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless …
Ezekiel 22:7 In you have they set light by father and mother: in the middle of …
Matthew 15:4 For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He …
Acts 23:5 Then said Paul, I knew not, brothers, that he was the high priest: …
1 Peter 2:17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!
And it was so, that when any man came nigh to him to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him.
And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron.
A.M.
2 Samuel 13:38 So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
1 Samuel 16:1,13 And the LORD said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing …
let me go
2 Samuel 13:24-27 And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, your servant …
pay
1 Samuel 16:2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. …
Proverbs 21:27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he …
Isaiah 58:4 Behold, you fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist …
Matthew 2:8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently …
Matthew 23:14 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' …
For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD.
thy servant
Genesis 28:20,21 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep …
1 Samuel 1:11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if you will indeed …
1 Samuel 16:2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. …
Psalm 56:12 Your vows are on me, O God: I will render praises to you.
Ecclesiastes 5:4 When you vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for he has no pleasure …
Geshur
2 Samuel 13:37,38 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of …
2 Samuel 14:23,32 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem…
I will serve
Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil to you to serve the LORD, choose you this day …
Isaiah 28:15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with …
Jeremiah 9:3-5 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are …
Jeremiah 42:20 For you dissembled in your hearts, when you sent me to the LORD your …
And the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron.
But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.
spies
2 Samuel 13:28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark you now when …
2 Samuel 14:30 Therefore he said to his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, …
reigneth
2 Samuel 19:10 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore …
Job 20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite …
Psalm 73:18,19 Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into …
Hebron
2 Samuel 2:1,11 And it came to pass after this, that David inquired of the LORD, …
2 Samuel 3:2 And to David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, …
2 Samuel 5:5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in …
1 Chronicles 11:3 Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and …
1 Chronicles 12:23,38 And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the …
And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, that were called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any thing.
And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counseller, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.
Ahithophel
2 Samuel 15:31 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators …
2 Samuel 16:20-23 Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do…
2 Samuel 17:14,23 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai …
David's
Psalm 41:9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of …
Psalm 55:12-14 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it…
Micah 7:5,6 Trust you not in a friend, put you not confidence in a guide: keep …
John 13:18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture …
Giloh
Joshua 15:51 And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages:
while he offered
Numbers 23:1,14,30 And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare …
1 Kings 21:9,12 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth …
Psalm 50:16-21 But to the wicked God said, What have you to do to declare my statutes, …
Proverbs 21:27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he …
Isaiah 1:10-16 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law …
Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being …
the people
Psalm 3:1,2 Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that …
Psalm 43:1,2 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O …
And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.
And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.
Arise
2 Samuel 19:9 And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, …
Psalm 3:1 Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that …
bring [heb] thrust
Ezekiel 46:18 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by …
Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven …
Luke 10:15 And you, Capernaum, which are exalted to heaven, shall be thrust down to hell.
and smite
2 Samuel 23:16,17 And the three mighty men broke through the host of the Philistines, …
Psalm 51:18 Do good in your good pleasure to Zion: build you the walls of Jerusalem.
Psalm 55:3-11 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the …
Psalm 137:5,6 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning…
And the king's servants said unto the king, Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.
And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, which were concubines, to keep the house.
And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and tarried in a place that was far off.
And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king: for thou art a stranger, and also an exile.
Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth be with thee.
go up and down [heb] wander in going
Psalm 56:8 You tell my wanderings: put you my tears into your bottle: are they …
Psalm 59:15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
Amos 8:12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to …
Hebrews 11:37,38 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain …
seeing
1 Samuel 23:13 Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed …
mercy
2 Samuel 2:6 And now the LORD show kindness and truth to you: and I also will …
Psalm 25:10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth to such as keep his …
Psalm 57:3 He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that …
Psalm 61:7 He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which …
Psalm 85:10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed …
Psalm 89:14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of your throne: mercy and …
Proverbs 14:22 Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to …
John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
2 Timothy 1:16-18 The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed …
And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the LORD liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.
As the Lord
1 Samuel 20:3 And David swore moreover, and said, Your father certainly knows that …
1 Samuel 25:26 Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, …
2 Kings 2:2,4,6 And Elijah said to Elisha, Tarry here, I pray you; for the LORD has …
2 Kings 4:30 And the mother of the child said, As the LORD lives, and as your …
surely
Ruth 1:16,17 And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave you, or to return from following …
Proverbs 17:17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 18:24 A man that has friends must show himself friendly: and there is a …
Matthew 8:19,20 And a certain scribe came, and said to him, Master, I will follow …
John 6:66-69 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him…
Acts 11:23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted …
Acts 21:13 Then Paul answered, What mean you to weep and to break my heart? …
2 Corinthians 7:3 I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that you …
And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that were with him.
and all the little Sir John Chardin informs us,in a MS note on this place, that it is usual with the greatest part of the eastern people, especially the Arabs, to carry their whole family with them when they go to war.
And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
all the country
Romans 12:15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
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 For it shall be, that on the day you go out, and pass over the brook …
John 18:1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples …
Cedron
the wilderness
2 Samuel 16:2 And the king said to Ziba, What mean you by these? And Ziba said, …
Matthew 3:1,3 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea…
Luke 1:80 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts …
And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites were with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city.
Zadok
2 Samuel 15:27,35 The king said also to Zadok the priest, Are not you a seer? return …
2 Samuel 8:17 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were …
2 Samuel 20:25 And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:
1 Kings 1:8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan …
1 Kings 2:35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the …
1 Kings 4:2-4 And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest…
1 Chronicles 6:8-12 And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz…
Ezekiel 48:11 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; …
bearing
2 Samuel 6:13 And it was so, that when they that bore the ark of the LORD had gone …
Numbers 4:15 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, …
Numbers 7:9 But to the sons of Kohath he gave none…
Joshua 3:3,6,15-17 And they commanded the people, saying, When you see the ark of the …
Joshua 4:16-18 Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they …
Joshua 6:4,6 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' …
1 Samuel 4:3-5,11 And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel …
1 Chronicles 15:2 Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: …
And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again, and shew me both it, and his habitation:
Carry back
2 Samuel 12:10,11 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house; because …
1 Samuel 4:3-11 And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel …
Jeremiah 7:4 Trust you not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The …
he will bring
Psalm 26:8 LORD, I have loved the habitation of your house, and the place where …
Psalm 27:4,5 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that …
Psalm 42:1,2 As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God…
Psalm 43:3,4 O send out your light and your truth: let them lead me; let them …
Psalm 63:1,2 O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for …
Psalm 84:1-3,10 How amiable are your tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!…
Psalm 122:1,9 I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the house of the LORD…
Isaiah 38:22 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the …
habitation
2 Samuel 6:17 And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, …
2 Samuel 7:2 That the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an …
But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.
I have not
2 Samuel 22:20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because …
Numbers 14:8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, …
1 Kings 10:9 Blessed be the LORD your God, which delighted in you, to set you …
2 Chronicles 9:8 Blessed be the LORD your God, which delighted in you to set you on …
Isaiah 42:1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; my elect, in whom my soul delights; …
Isaiah 62:4 You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any …
Jeremiah 22:28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein …
Jeremiah 32:41 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them …
Matthew 1:10 And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias;
let
Judges 10:15 And the children of Israel said to the LORD, We have sinned: do you …
1 Samuel 3:18 And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he …
Job 1:20,21 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell …
Psalm 39:9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because you did it.
The king said also unto Zadok the priest, Art not thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.
Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they tarried there.
And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
the ascent
Zechariah 14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day on the mount of Olives, which …
Luke 19:29,37 And it came to pass, when he was come near to Bethphage and Bethany, …
Luke 21:37 And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out…
Luke 22:39 And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; …
Acts 1:12 Then returned they to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which …
mount Olivet Mount Olivet, so called its abounding with olive trees, is situated east of Jerusalem, being separated from it only by the valley of Jehoshaphat and the brook Kidron. Josephus says it is five stadia, i.e,
2 Samuel 1:12 And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and …
and wept as he went up [heb] going up and weeping
Psalm 42:3-11 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually …
Psalm 43:1,2,5 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O …
Luke 19:41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
his head covered This practice was only practised by persons in great distress, or when convicted of great {crimes.} Thus Darius, when informed by Tyriotes, the eunuch, that his queen was dead, and that she had suffered no violence from Alexander, {covered his head}, and wept a long time; then throwing off the garment that covered him, he thanked the gods for Alexander's moderation and justice.
2 Samuel 19:4 But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, …
Esther 6:12 And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hurried to …
Jeremiah 14:3,4 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they …
barefoot
Isaiah 20:2,4 At the same time spoke the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, …
Ezekiel 24:17,23 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of your …
weeping
Psalm 126:5,6 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy…
Matthew 5:4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Romans 12:15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
1 Corinthians 12:26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or …
And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
Ahithophel
2 Samuel 15:12 And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, …
Psalm 3:1 Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that …
Psalm 41:9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of …
Psalm 55:12,14 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it…
Matthew 26:14,15 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests…
John 13:18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture …
O Lord
Psalm 55:15 Let death seize on them, and let them go down quick into hell: for …
Psalm 109:3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against …
turn the counsel
2 Samuel 16:23 And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counceled in those days, …
2 Samuel 17:14,23 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai …
Job 5:12 He disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot …
Job 12:16-20 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his…
Isaiah 19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the middle thereof; and I will …
Jeremiah 8:8,9 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? …
1 Corinthians 1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of …
1 Corinthians 3:18-20 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise …
James 3:15 This wisdom descends not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head:
the top
2 Samuel 15:30 And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went …
1 Kings 11:7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination …
Luke 19:29 And it came to pass, when he was come near to Bethphage and Bethany, …
he worshipped
1 Kings 8:44,45 If your people go out to battle against their enemy, wherever you …
Job 1:20,21 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell …
Psalm 3:3-5,7 But you, O LORD, are a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head…
Psalm 4:1-3 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: you have enlarged …
Psalm 50:15 And call on me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you …
Psalm 91:15 He shall call on me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in …
Hushai
2 Samuel 16:16-19 And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, was …
Archite
Joshua 16:2 And goes out from Bethel to Luz, and passes along to the borders …
coat rent
2 Samuel 1:2 It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out …
2 Samuel 13:19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colors …
Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with me, then thou shalt be a burden unto me:
But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.
And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests? therefore it shall be, that what thing soever thou shalt hear out of the king's house, thou shalt tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz Zadok's son, and Jonathan Abiathar's son; and by them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye can hear.
So Hushai David's friend came into the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem.
