SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:23
Y todos los de la tierra lloraron en alta voz; y pasó todo el pueblo el arroyo de Cedrón; y después pasó el rey, y todo el pueblo pasó, al camino que va al desierto.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 15:23
Verse 23. The brook Kidron] This was an inconsiderable brook, and only furnished with water in winter, and in the rains. See John xviii. 1.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 23. And all the country wept with a loud voice , etc.] The people that came out of the country villages round about, upon the report of the king’s leaving Jerusalem, because of his son’s conspiracy against him; these wept when they saw him in the circumstances in which he was, obliged to fly from a rebellious son: and all the people passed over ; the people that were with David passed over Kidron, and so the Cherethites, and Pelethites: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron ; this explains what place it was they passed over, which is not before mentioned, but is particularly named in the account of the king’s passing over it; over which same brook the Messiah, his antitype, passed a little before his sufferings and death; of which brook, (see Gill on “ John 18:1”). It is often by Josephus called a valley, sometimes a brook, it having little water, except in winter; Mr. Maundrell says, it ran along the bottom of the valley of Jehoshaphat, a brook in the wintertime; but without the least drop of water in it all the time, says he, we were in Jerusalem; and so Reland f264 , that in summertime it ceases to be a river, and has the name of a valley; and Leviticus Bruyn says f265 , it is at present dried up; it runs along the valley of Jehoshaphat, and is not above three paces broad; it has no other but rain water, which flows from the adjacent hills: and all the people passed over to the way of the wilderness ; which lay between Jerusalem and Jericho.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 13-23 - David determined to quit Jerusalem. He took this resolve, as a peniten submitting to the rod. Before unrighteous Absalom he could justif himself, and stand out; but before the righteous God he must condem himself, and yield to his judgments. Thus he accepts the punishment of his sin. And good men, when they themselves suffer, are anxious tha others should not be led to suffer with them. He compelled none; thos whose hearts were with Absalom, to Absalom let them go, and so shal their doom be. Thus Christ enlists none but willing followers. Davi cannot bear to think that Ittai, a stranger and an exile, a proselyt and a new convert, who ought to be encouraged and made easy, shoul meet with hard usage. But such value has Ittai for David's wisdom an goodness, that he will not leave him. He is a friend indeed, who love at all times, and will adhere to us in adversity. Let us cleave to the Son of David, with full purpose of heart, and neither life nor deat shall separate us from his love.
Original Hebrew
וכל 3605 הארץ 776 בוכים 1058 קול 6963 גדול 1419 וכל 3605 העם 5971 עברים 5674 והמלך 4428 עבר 5674 בנחל 5158 קדרון 6939 וכל 3605 העם 5971 עברים 5674 על 5921 פני 6440 דרך 1870 את 853 המדבר׃ 4057
