John Gill's Exposition on 2 Samuel 18:6

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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So the people went out into the field against Israel, etc.] Josephus f303 calls it a great field, with a wood behind it: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim; or near it f304 rather; not in a wood in the tribe of Ephraim, which lay on this side Jordan; whereas this battle was fought on the other side Jordan, in the land of Gilead, not far from Mahanaim, where was this wood; and which was so called, either from the slaughter of the Ephraimites here in the times of Jephthah, (<071204>Judges 12:4-6); or from the Ephraimites feeding their cattle here and near it; for the Jews say f305, that Joshua gave them a grant to feed their cattle in any wood in any of the tribes of Israel; and lying near Jordan, they used to drive their cattle over to this place, from whence it had its name.

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