SEV Biblia, Chapter 13:34
Absalón huyó luego . Entre tanto , alzando sus ojos el joven que estaba en atalaya, miró, y he aquí mucho pueblo que venía a sus espaldas por el camino de hacia el monte.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 34. But Absalom fled , etc.] He who promised his servants protection could not protect himself, and who no doubt fled with him; he knew what he had done was death by law, and that there was no city of refuge for such sort of murder as this, and he had no reason to hope the king would suffer so foul a crime as this to pass unpunished: and the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked : to the way that led from Absalom’s house to Jerusalem, to see if he could spy any other messenger on the road from thence: and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him ; that is, behind the watchman, who, looking round him, saw them; these people were the king’s sons and their attendants, who, being at some distance, the young man could not discern who they were; they did not come the direct road from Absalom’s house, but came a round about way, for fear, as R. Isaiah rightly conjectures, lest Absalom should pursue, or send pursuers after them, and slay them; though others, as Kimchi, think this refers to the hill, and that the sense is, that the watchman saw them coming from the way which was behind the hill, and began to see them when they came to the side of it, which was the way that led to the city, surrounded by mountains, (see <19C502> Psalm 125:2).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 30-39 - Jonadab was as guilty of Ammon's death, as of his sin; such fals friends do they prove, who counsel us to do wickedly. Instead of loathing Absalom as a murderer, David, after a time, longed to go fort to him. This was David's infirmity: God saw something in his heart tha made a difference, else we should have thought that he, as much as Eli honoured his sons more than God __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויברח 1272 אבשׁלום 53 וישׂא 5375 הנער 5288 הצפה 6822 את 853 עינו 5869 וירא 7200 והנה 2009 עם 5971 רב 7227 הלכים 1980 מדרך 1870 אחריו 310 מצד 6654 ההר׃ 2022
