2 Samuel 2:29

29 Durante toda esa noche Abner y sus hombres retrocedieron por el Jordán.
Cruzaron el río Jordán y viajaron toda la mañana
sin detenerse hasta llegar a Mahanaim.

2 Samuel 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 Samuel 2:29 In-Context

27 Entonces dijo Joab:
—Si no hubieras hablado, solo Dios sabe lo que habría pasado, porque los habríamos perseguido toda la noche de ser necesario.

28 De manera que Joab tocó el cuerno de carnero, y sus hombres dejaron de perseguir a las tropas de Israel.

29 Durante toda esa noche Abner y sus hombres retrocedieron por el Jordán.
Cruzaron el río Jordán y viajaron toda la mañana
sin detenerse hasta llegar a Mahanaim.

30 Mientras tanto, Joab y sus hombres también regresaron a casa. Cuando Joab contó sus bajas, descubrió que solo faltaban diecinueve hombres, además de Asael.

31 Pero murieron trescientos sesenta hombres de Abner, todos de la tribu de Benjamín.