2 Samuele 2:29

29 Abner e la sua gente camminarono tutta quella notte per la campagna, passarono il Giordano, attraversarono tutto il Bithron e giunsero a Mahanaim.

2 Samuele 2:29 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 2:29

And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain,
&c.] The plain of Jordan. He marched with his men all night, lest Joab should return, and pursue him, and take vengeance on him for the death of his brother:

and passed over Jordan;
at one of the fords of it:

and went through all Bithron;
the name of a province or country, as Jarchi, called so perhaps from its being separated from the rest of the tribes of Israel by the river Jordan; some think the mountains of Bether were in this country, ( Song of Solomon 2:17 ) . From Gibeon, where the battle was fought, to Bithron, according to Bunting ^F15, was twenty eight miles, the which he says was in the tribe of Gad, twenty eight miles from Jerusalem northeastward, lying between Dibon and Jordan:

and they came to Mahanaim:
from whence they came, and where they had left Ishbosheth, ( 2 Samuel 2:8 2 Samuel 2:12 ) . From Bithron to this place, according to the same writer ^F16, was sixteen miles.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 Travels p. 145, 146.
F16 Ibid.

2 Samuele 2:29 In-Context

27 Joab rispose: "Com’è vero che Dio vive, se tu non avessi parlato, il popolo non avrebbe cessato d’inseguire i suoi fratelli prima di domani mattina".

28 Allora Joab suonò la tromba, e tutto il popolo si fermò, senza più inseguire Israele, e cessò di combattere.

29 Abner e la sua gente camminarono tutta quella notte per la campagna, passarono il Giordano, attraversarono tutto il Bithron e giunsero a Mahanaim.

30 Joab tornò anch’egli dall’inseguire Abner; e, radunato tutto il popolo, risultò che della gente di Davide mancavano diciannove uomini ed Asael.

31 Ma la gente di Davide aveva ucciso trecento sessanta uomini de’ Beniaminiti e della gente di Abner.