And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baalhazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons.
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Gill's Exposition
And it came to pass after two full years,.... Two complete years after the rape was committed; so long Absalom kept it in his mind, and was contriving how to avenge it; he let it alone so long, that…
Barnes' Notes
Sheepshearing was always a time of feasting (marginal references). Baal-hazor is not known.
Adam Clarke
Absalom had sheep-shearers - These were times in which feasts were made, to which the neighbors and relatives of the family were invited.
What Solomon says of the beginning of strife is as true of the beginning of all sin, it is as the letting forth of water; when once the flood-gates are plucked up, an inundation follows; one mischief…
Absalom's vengeance
23. Absalom had sheepshearers Sheepshearing was and still is an occasion of festivity. Cp. 1Sa 25:7 ff.
Baal-hazor, which is beside Ephraim Possibly Tell Asur, five miles…
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