Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on 2 Samuel 15:1

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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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ABSALOM STEALS THE HEARTS OF ISRAEL. (Sa2 15:1-9) Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him--This was assuming the state and equipage of a prince. The royal guards, called runners, avant couriers, amounted to fifty (Kg1 1:5). The chariot, as the Hebrew indicates, was of a magnificent style; and the horses, a novelty among the Hebrew people, only introduced in that age as an appendage of royalty (Psa 32:9; Psa 66:12), formed a splendid retinue, which would make him "the observed of all observers."

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