2 Samuel 18:4

Overview - 2 Samuel 18
David viewing the armies in their march gives them charge of Absalom.
The Israelites are sorely smitten in the wood of Ephraim.
Absalom, hanging in an oak is slain by Joab, and cast into a pit.
18 Absalom's place.
19 Ahimaaz and Cushi bring tidings to David.
33 David mourns for Absalom.
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2 Samuel 18:4  (King James Version)
And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands.
 


by the gate
24 ; Isaiah 28:6

by hundreds
David's small company, by this time, was greatly recruited; but what its number was we cannot tell. Josephus says it amounted only to 2 Samuel 18:4 2 Samuel 18:000 ; men.
1 ; 1 Samuel 29:2