2 Samuel 15:18

18 E todos os seus servos iam ao seu lado; mas todos os quereteus, e todos os peleteus, e todos os giteus, seiscentos homens que o seguiram de Gate, caminhavam adiante do rei.

2 Samuel 15:18 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 15:18

And all his servants passed on beside him
Or at his hand or side; his household servants walking perhaps some on one side of him, and some on the other, see ( 2 Samuel 16:6 ) ;

and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites;
which were his bodyguards, see ( 2 Samuel 8:18 ) ;

and all the Gittites, six hundred men which came after him from Gath;
which either came with him from Gath, when he conquered that city, and took it out of the hands of the Philistines, ( 2 Samuel 8:1 ) ; compared with ( 1 Chronicles 18:1 ) ; and who might become proselytes, and be incorporated into the commonwealth of Israel, and into David's army, a troop of men, of which Ittai, after mentioned, was captain, ( 2 Samuel 15:22 ) ; or else these were Israelites, so called, because with David they sojourned in Gath a while, when he fled from Saul; and so Josephus ^F12 says, they were companions of him in his first flight, when Saul was living; and this number is just the number of the men that were with him at Gath, ( 1 Samuel 27:2 1 Samuel 27:3 ) ; and it may be David kept a troop of men always of the same number, to whom he gave this name in memory of them, having been a set of trusty and faithful men to him: these, with the Cherethites and Pelethites,

passed on before the king:
in this form and manner David and his men marched in their flight.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Ut supra, (Antiqu. l. 7. c. 9.) sect. 2.

2 Samuel 15:18 In-Context

16 Assim saiu o rei, com todos os de sua casa, deixando, porém, dez concubinas para guardarem a casa.

17 Tendo, pois, saído o rei com todo o povo, pararam na última casa:

18 E todos os seus servos iam ao seu lado; mas todos os quereteus, e todos os peleteus, e todos os giteus, seiscentos homens que o seguiram de Gate, caminhavam adiante do rei.

19 Disse o rei a Itai, o giteu: Por que irias tu também conosco? Volta e fica-te com o rei, porque és estrangeiro e exilado; torna a teu lugar.

20 Ontem vieste, e te levaria eu hoje conosco a vaguear? Pois eu vou para onde puder ir; volta, e lei, e contigo teus irmãos; a misericórdia e a fidelidade sejam contigo.