And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
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Gill's Exposition
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 Sa2 16:6,
and all the Cherethites,…
Barnes' Notes
Passed on - Rather, “crossed” the Brook Kidron, as in 2Sa 15:22-23. Gittites - During David’s residence in the country of the Philistines he attached such a band to himself; and after the settlement…
Here is, I. The notice brought to David of Absalom's rebellion, Sa2 15:13. The matter was bad enough, and yet it seems to have been made worse to him (as such things commonly are) than really it was;…
Cambridge Bible
all the Gittites If the text is sound, we must infer that David had brought with him a body of Philistine followers from Gath, a supposition which is in accordance with the view that the Cherethites…
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