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2 Samuel 18:17

Listen to 2 Samuel 18:17
17 Después tomaron el cuerpo de Absalón, lo tiraron en un hoyo grande que había en el bosque, y sobre su cadáver amontonaron muchísimas piedras. Mientras tanto, todos los israelitas huyeron a sus hogares.

2 Samuel 18:17 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 18:17

And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the
wood
In the wood of Ephraim, near to which the battle was fought, and into which Absalom fled, and where he was slain:

and laid a very great heap of stones upon him:
his punishment was very exemplary; he was first hanged on an oak, and then thrust through with darts, and swords, and then covered with stones, ( 2 Samuel 18:9 2 Samuel 18:14 2 Samuel 18:15 ) , pointing to the death that a rebellious son, according to the law, ought to die, ( Deuteronomy 21:21 ) ; though this might be done in honour of him as a king's son; for such "tumuli", or heaps of stones or earth, were used by the ancients as sepulchral monuments, and the larger the more honourable F14; (See Gill on Joshua 7:26) and (See Gill on Joshua 8:29);

and all Israel fled everyone to his tent;
or to his city, as the Targum; everyone returned to their own house, and to their own business, and so the rebellion ceased.


FOOTNOTES:

F14 Homer. Iliad. 23. ver. 245, 257.
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2 Samuel 18:17 In-Context

15 Luego, diez de los escuderos de Joab rodearon a Absalón y lo remataron.
16 Entonces Joab mandó tocar la trompeta para detener a las tropas, y dejaron de perseguir a los israelitas.
17 Después tomaron el cuerpo de Absalón, lo tiraron en un hoyo grande que había en el bosque, y sobre su cadáver amontonaron muchísimas piedras. Mientras tanto, todos los israelitas huyeron a sus hogares.
18 En vida, Absalón se había erigido una estela en el valle del Rey, pues pensaba: «No tengo ningún hijo que conserve mi memoria». Así que a esa estela le puso su propio nombre, y por eso hasta la fecha se conoce como la Estela de Absalón.
19 Ajimaz hijo de Sadoc le propuso a Joab:—Déjame ir corriendo para avisarle al rey que el SEÑOR lo ha librado del poder de sus enemigos.
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