From Reformation to Reformation

Verse 5: [1]   Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith ( Heb. what  is in his mouth...

Verse 1: [1]   Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David...

Hushai, David’s friend, being, by David’s order, gone over to Absalom, by God’s appointment overthroweth Ahithophel’s counsel , 1-14 . ...

Verse 15: [1]   And ( 2 Sam. 15:37 ) Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him. [ They...

Verse 1: [1]   And ( 2 Sam. 15:30, 32 ) when David was a little past the top of the hill , behold, ( 2 Sam. 9:2 ) Ziba the servant of...

Ziba, by presents and false suggestions, obtaineth of David his master’s inheritance , 1-4 .  Shimei revileth and curseth David, who...

Verse 30: [1]   And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up ( Heb. going up, and weeping [2] ), and ( 2 Sam....

Verse 19: [1]   Then said the king to ( 2 Sam. 18:2 ) Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with us? return to thy place, and...

Verse 13: [1]   And there came a messenger to David, saying, ( 2 Sam. 15:6; Judg. 9:3 ) The hearts of the men of Israel are after...

Verse 8: [1]   ( 1 Sam. 16:2 ) For thy servant ( Gen. 28:20, 21 ) vowed a vow ( 2 Sam. 13:38 ) while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying,...

I.  The Years of this period, by a rougher calculation, are reckoned at three hundred and seventy.  For, it is evident, that to the...

[ 1023 BC ]  Verse 7: [1]   And it came to pass ( 1 Sam. 16:1 ) after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me...

[ 1024 BC ]  Verse 1: [1]   And ( 2 Sam. 12:11 ) it came to pass after this, that Absalom ( 1 Kings 1:5 ) prepared him chariots and...

Absalom stealeth the hearts of Israel , 1-6 .  Under pretence of a vow obtaineth leave to go to Hebron:  there with Ahithophel’s aid he...

Verse 21: [1]   And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing:  go therefore, bring the young man Absalom again. [ And...

Verse 12: [1]   Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king.  And he said, Say on. [ Let...

[ 1027 BC ]  Verse 1: [1]   Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was ( 2 Sam. 13:39 ) toward Absalom. [ Joab,...

Joab suborning a widow of Tekoah by a parable to incline the king’s heart to fetch home Absalom, bringeth him to Jerusalem, but not into...

Verse 30: [1]   And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king’s...

I.  The Chronology of this period, which is the fourth for us and numbers four hundred and forty-one years, has not a few difficulties,...