Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.
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Gill's Exposition
And Absalom and all the men of Israel said,.... That is, the elders, who before approved of the counsel of Ahithophel, Sa2 17:4,
the counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of…
Adam Clarke
Shall all Israel bring ropes to that city - The original word חבלים chabalim, which signifies ropes, and from which we have our word cable, may have some peculiarity of meaning here; for it is not…
Absalom is now in peaceable possession of Jerusalem; the palace-royal is his own, as are the thrones of judgment, even the thrones of the house of David. His good father reigned in Hebron, and only…
Cambridge Bible
into the river Into the ravine. Hushai intentionally indulges in an extravagant hyperbole in order to describe the irresistible power of the force that would be gathered, if he means to suggest the…