John Gill's Exposition on 2 Samuel 16:15

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, etc.] At the same time that David and his people came to Bahurim; which, as Josephus f274 says, was a place near to Jerusalem; and, according to Bunting f275, was little more than a mile from it; though elsewhere f276 he makes it three miles; so that had not David made the hasty flight he did, he had fallen into the hands of Absalom: and Ahithophel with him: a famous counsellor, and who had been of David’s privy council, and chief in it, (see <101512>2 Samuel 15:12,31) and whom David refers to in (<195512>Psalm 55:12-14).

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