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John Gill's Exposition on 2 Samuel 15:23
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And all the country wept with a loud voice, etc.] 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 people that were with David passed over Kidron, and so the Cherethites, and Pelethites: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron; this explains what place it was they passed over, which is not before mentioned, but is particularly named in the account of the king’s passing over it; over which same brook the Messiah, his antitype, passed a little before his sufferings and death; of which brook, (see Gill on “<431801>John 18:1”). It is often by Josephus f262 called a valley, sometimes a brook, it having little water, except in winter; Mr. Maundrell f263 says, it ran along the bottom of the valley of Jehoshaphat, a brook in the wintertime; but without the least drop of water in it all the time, says he, we were in Jerusalem; and so Reland f264, that in summertime it ceases to be a river, and has the name of a valley; and Leviticus Bruyn says f265, it is at present dried up; it runs along the valley of Jehoshaphat, and is not above three paces broad; it has no other but rain water, which flows from the adjacent hills: and all the people passed over to the way of the wilderness; which lay between Jerusalem and Jericho.
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