2 Samuel 17:27-29

27 When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, and Makir son of Ammiel from Lo Debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim

28 brought bedding and bowls and articles of pottery. They also brought wheat and barley, flour and roasted grain, beans and lentils,^[a]

29 honey and curds, sheep, and cheese from cows’ milk for David and his people to eat. For they said, “The people have become exhausted and hungry and thirsty in the wilderness.”

2 Samuel 17:27-29 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO SECOND SAMUEL 17

This chapter relates the advice Ahithophel gave to march out speedily with a number of men in pursuit of David, which at first seemed agreeable, 2Sa 17:1-4; but Hushai's opinion being asked, and he giving counsel to raise a larger army, which required time, and was taken to, hereby the counsel of Ahithophel was defeated, 2Sa 17:5-14; upon which he hanged himself, 2Sa 17:23; these different counsels being communicated by Hushai to the priests, they found means to transmit them to David, with an instruction to him to pass over Jordan immediately; which he did, and pitched in Gilead, and whither he was followed by Absalom, 2Sa 17:15-26; and where he met with a supply of provisions for his army from some eminent persons in and near that place, 2Sa 17:27-29.

Cross References

• 1. S 1 Samuel 11:1
• 2. S Deuteronomy 3:11; 2 Samuel 10:1-2; 2 Samuel 12:26,29
• 3. 2 Samuel 9:4
• 4. 2 Samuel 19:31-39; 1 Kings 2:7
• 5. 2 Samuel 19:31; Ezra 2:61
• 6. 1 Chronicles 12:40
• 7. 2 Samuel 16:2; S Romans 12:13

Footnotes

• [a]. Most Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac; Hebrew "lentils, and roasted grain"