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**choose out.** Septuagint and Vulgate read "choose for myself".
**men** . Hebrew. *'ish.* App-14 .
**I will** . Ahithophel manifests personal vengeance. See note on [2 Samuel 16:21](../../../kjv/2-samuel/16/21) with [2 Samuel 17:11](../../../kjv/2-samuel/17/11) .
**this night.** Compare [Psalms 4:8](../../../kjv/psalms/4/8) . [Psalms 4](../../../kjv/psalms/4) is concerning inheritances. David's was in jeopardy ([2 Samuel 17:2](../../../kjv/2-samuel/17/2) ), but his trust was in Jehovah's favour ([2 Samuel 15:26](../../../kjv/2-samuel/15/26) ; [2 Samuel 22:20](../../../kjv/2-samuel/22/20) . [Psalms 18:19](../../../kjv/psalms/18/19) ).

**pleased** = was good in the eyes of,
**and** = and [in the eyes of] all.

**Call now** . Hebrew "Call thou "(compare "thou", [2 Samuel 17:6](../../../kjv/2-samuel/17/6) ); but Septuagint and Vulgate read "Call ye".

**counsel . . . given** . Hebrew counsel . . . counselled. Figure of speech *Polyptoton* ( App-6 ) = the good counsel (but "not good "now).

**men** . Hebrew. *'enosh.* App-14 .
**mighty men** . Hebrew. *gibborim.* App-14 .
**chafed** = bitter.
**minds** = souls. Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 .

**Behold** . Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 .

**valiant men** = sons of valour.

**as** . Figure of speech *Parcemia.* App-6 .
**thou** = thou thyself. Hebrew "thy face". Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Part), App-6 , put to emphasise the whole person. to battle. Hebrew. *karat),* never used of battle (which is *milhamah). Bikkrab,* rendered "to battle", is an abbreviation for *bekirbah = "in* the midst of them", which is the reading *of* the Septuagint and Vulgate.
**in thine own person** . By all this emphasis Hushai represents Ahithophel's personal malice (which need not disturb Absalom) as being personal pride aimed against Absalom. See verses: [2 Samuel 17:1-3](../../../kjv/2-samuel/17/1-3) , "I will arise"; "I will come"; "I will smite"; "I will bring back", &c.

**as** = according as.

**the LORD** . Hebrew. *Jehovah* . App-4 .
**evil** = the evil. Heb, *ra`a* '. App-44 .

**En-rogel** . Now the Virgin's Fount, on east side *of* Ophel, or Jebus, from which the Zinnor runs up to the citadel. See note on [2 Samuel 5:8](../../../kjv/2-samuel/5/8) . Compare [Joshua 15:7](../../../kjv/joshua/15/7) ; [Joshua 18:16](../../../kjv/joshua/18/16) , and App-68 , on "Zion".
**a wench** = a maidservant. Compare [Matthew 26:69](../../../kjv/matthew/26/69) . [Mark 14:66](../../../kjv/mark/14/66) . [Luke 22:56](../../../kjv/luke/22/56) . [John 18:17](../../../kjv/john/18/17) .

**went down** . Wells mostly dry in summer.

**said** . Probably misdirecting them.

**Jordan** . Compare [Psalms 42:6](../../../kjv/psalms/42/6) and Psa 42:43 ; both Pss. referring to this period.

**put his household in order** = gave charge unto his household.
**hanged himself** . Not so much because his counsel was not, taken, but because his revenge was not taken on David (see note on [2 Samuel 11:3](../../../kjv/2-samuel/11/3) ; [2 Samuel 16:21](../../../kjv/2-samuel/16/21) , and [2 Samuel 17:1](../../../kjv/2-samuel/17/1) ), and that the conspiracy must fail. Same word in [Matthew 27:5](../../../kjv/matthew/27/5) as in Septuagint here *(apegxato),* as though to invite the comparison of Judas with Ahithophel.

**all.** Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Genus). App-6 . The whole put for the greater part

**made** = set, or appointed.
**captain of** = captain over.
**Ithra an Israelite** = Jether an Ishmeelite. See [1 Chronicles 2:17](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/2/17) .
**went in to** . Probably meaning seduced. If so, it would be during David's stay in Moab ([1 Samuel 22:3](../../../kjv/1-samuel/22/3) , [1 Samuel 22:4](../../../kjv/1-samuel/22/4) Abigail. David was probably half-brother to Abigail, and Zeruiah, having the same mother; he having Jess for his father, they having Nahash.
**sister to Zeruiah.** Implying that she was not sister to David.

**Nahash** . Compare [2 Samuel 10:2](../../../kjv/2-samuel/10/2) .
**Machir** . He had brought up Mephibosheth. Compare [2 Samuel 9:1](../../../kjv/2-samuel/9/1)

**and.** Note the Figure of speech *Polysyndeton* ( App-6 ), [2 Samuel 17:28](../../../kjv/2-samuel/17/28) and [2 Samuel 17:29](../../../kjv/2-samuel/17/29) , emphasising the items.

**butter** . Scarce in Lo-debar. Compare [2 Samuel 9:4](../../../kjv/2-samuel/9/4) . The word means place of "no pasture".

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