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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the king’s servants said unto the king, Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint. What a loyal spirit they displayed in the time of trial! Oh, that such loyalty could always be found in all the servants of King Jesus! But, alas! many of his servants pick and choose as to which of his commands they will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the king’s servants said unto the king, Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord, the king shall appoint. They were attached to him — ready to take his counsel at once. Can we say the same to King Jesus? Will every Christian here now say to his Master, “Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my Lord the King shall...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the king went forth,.... Which determined the case: and all his household after him family and his court; they followed his example, and attended him in his flight: and the king left ten women, [which were] concubines, to keep the house; not to defend it, which they were unable to do, but to look after the household goods and furniture, that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the king went forth,.... From Jerusalem; which is repeated, that it might be observed in what a hurry and fright he was: and all the people after him; his family, court, and servants, and as many of the people of Jerusalem as chose to go with him: and tarried at a place that was afar off; when they had got at some distance from the city, they...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And all his servants passed on beside him,.... Or at his hand or side; his household servants walking perhaps some on one side of him, and some on the other, see 2 Samuel 16:6; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites; which were his bodyguards, see 2 Samuel 8:18; and all the Gittites, six hundred men which came after him from Gath; which...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite,.... Who was over the band of Gittites, the six hundred men, 2 Samuel 15:22; wherefore goest thou also with us? one should think the king should not have discouraged any from joining and following him, when his numbers were not very large, and the in such fear on account of Absalom: return to this place; to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Whereas thou camest [but] yesterday,.... From Gath, or from an expedition he and his men had been on: should I this day make thee, go up and down with us? wander up and down from place to place with David, when he was but just come off a journey, weary and fatigued: seeing I go whither I may; where it will be most safe for me, I know not where;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Ittai answered the king, and said,.... With an oath, as follows: [as] the Lord liveth, and [as] my lord the king liveth; which he took to confirm what he after says, and to put an end to the debate between them: surely, in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be; signifying that he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. He was a new-comer, but he was a fine recruit, and when our young converts, who have lately joined the church, have this spirit of loyalty in them,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And David said unto Ittai, go, and pass over,.... It being his resolution to abide with him, he urged him no more to depart, but bid him pass over the brook Kidron before him: and Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men; the six hundred Gittites that were under his command: and all the little ones that [were] with him; that belonged to him...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 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. And lo Zadok...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And all the country wept with a loud voice,.... The people that came out of the country villages round about, upon the report of the king's leaving Jerusalem, because of his son's conspiracy against him; these wept when they saw him in the circumstances in which he was, obliged to fly from a rebellious son: and all the people passed over; the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And, lo, Zadok also,.... The priest, as he is called, 2 Samuel 15:27; and all the Levites [were] with him: with Zadok, or with David, and indeed with both; but the former is rather meant here, being the immediate antecedent: bearing the ark of the covenant of God: these were the Kohathite Levites, whose business it was to bear the ark when carried...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the king said unto Zadok, carry back the ark of God into the city,.... The reason of which is not easy to account for, since being carried back it would fall into the hands of the conspirators; and now the priests were with it to take care of it, and there might be occasion to inquire at it before the Lord; but David thought it being a sacred...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee,.... As a king, or in his temporal prosperity, though he might and had delight in him as a chosen vessel of salvation, as a saint and child of God, and in his spiritual and everlasting welfare: behold, [here am] I; his humble servant, ready to be, and do and suffer whatever is his pleasure: let him do...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the king said unto Zadok the priest, [art not] thou a seer?.... A prophet, as well as a priest; see 1 Samuel 9:9; or a seeing, knowing, man; one that can penetrate into men and things, and so might be of more service to David at Jerusalem than with him: wherefore he said to him, return into the city in peace; to the city of Jerusalem with...