King James Version
2 Samuel 17:24 in the King James Version says “Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.” — study this verse from 2 Samuel chapter 17 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.”
2 Samuel 17:24 · KJV
Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father. followed: Heb. done put his: Heb. gave charge concerning his house
Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.
So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And Absalom”
H53abshalom, a son of david; also (the fuller form) a later israelite
“passed over”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“he and all the men”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then
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