John Gill's Exposition on 2 Samuel 17:18

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Nevertheless, a lad saw them, and told Absalom, etc.] Saw them conversing with the girl, and departing for David’s army; according to Josephus f288, they were some horsemen that saw them about two furlongs or a quarter mile from Jerusalem, and acquainted Absalom with it: but they went both of them away quickly; made all the haste they could with their message to David: and came to a man’s house in Bahurim; where very probably they had been informed David had been, whither he came weary, and had refreshment, (<101614>2 Samuel 16:14); or rather, perceiving they were discovered and pursued, they turned in hither, the first place they came to, for safety: which had a well in his court; which they observed, and was the reason of their turning in: whither they went down; to hide themselves from their pursuers, it being dry, as sometimes wells were in the summertime: Josephus says f289, a woman let them down by a rope.

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