SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:12
También envió Absalón por Ahitofel gilonita, del consejo de David, a Gilo su ciudad, mientras hacía sus sacrificios. Y fue hecha una grande conjuración, y el pueblo con Absalón se iba aumentando.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 15:12
Verse 12. Sent for Ahithophel] When Absalom got him, he in effect got the prime minister of the kingdom to join him.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 12. And Absalom sent for Ahithophel, the Gilonite, David’s counsellor , etc.] To advise with about this treasonable affair he was engaged in, and to get out of him David’s secrets, who was reckoned the best counsellor in the land; and he might rather hope he would come to him, if he was the grandfather of Bathsheba, as say the Jews, ( 2 Samuel 11:3 23:34); since he might be disgusted with and resent David’s adultery with Bathsheba his granddaughter, and the murder of her husband Uriah: him he sent for, from his city, [even] from Giloh ; a city in the tribe of Judah, in the mountainous part of it, near to Hebron, where Absalom now was; and, according to Bunting f259 , twenty miles from Jerusalem, (see Joshua 15:48,51,54); while he offered sacrifices ; not Ahithophel, but Absalom, his peace offerings at Hebron, to which he invited Ahithophel to come and partake of: and the conspiracy was strong ; or there was a great number in the conspiracy, who were assembled together: for the people increased continually with Absalom ; being drawn to him by the comeliness of his person, his affable behaviour, the pomp and magnificence in which he appeared, the great number of the principal inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and he the king’s eldest son, and so heir to the crown; whereas it might begin to be rumoured about, that David designed Solomon, a son of Bathsheba, a young prince, to be his successor, which did not meet with general approbation at first.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7-12 - See how willing tender parents are to believe the best concerning their children. But how easy and how wicked is it, for children to tak advantage of good parents, and to deceive them with the show of religion! The principal men of Jerusalem joined Absalom's feast upo his sacrifice. Pious persons are glad to see others appear religious and this gives occasion for deceptions. The policy of wicked men, an the subtlety of Satan, are exerted to draw good persons to countenanc base designs.
Original Hebrew
וישׁלח 7971 אבשׁלום 53 את 853 אחיתפל 302 הגילני 1526 יועץ 3289 דוד 1732 מעירו 5892 מגלה 1542 בזבחו 2076 את 853 הזבחים 2077 ויהי 1961 הקשׁר 7195 אמץ 533 והעם 5971 הולך 1980 ורב 7227 את 854 אבשׁלום׃ 53
