2 Samuel 17:3

3 und so werde ich alles Volk zu dir zurückbringen. Gleich der Rückkehr aller ist der Mann, den du suchst: das ganze Volk wird in Frieden sein.

2 Samuel 17:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 17:3

And I will bring back all the people unto thee
Meaning not the people only that were with David, that he would make them prisoners, and bring them with him; for he before proposed to let them make their escape; but to reduce all Israel to the obedience of Absalom at once, by executing this scheme which he had formed:

the man whom thou seekest [is] as if all returned;
meaning David, whom he speaks of contemptibly, and whose life it seems Absalom sought, as well as his crown; and he being dead, it would be all over at once with the people; they would immediately return to their own habitations, and yield obedience to Absalom as the rightful heir and successor; all depended on his death, he intimates: from whence it appears that Abarbinel is wrong in suggesting that Absalom did not design to take away the life of his father, only to secure the kingdom to himself in his father's lifetime, who he understood had disposed of it by his will to Solomon; but here Ahithophel plainly declares the intention of Absalom, nor would he have proposed in plain terms to take away the king's life, had Absalom been averse to it; and it is plain by what follows that the thing was pleasing to him:

[so] all the people shall be in peace;
both parties coalesce under the government of Absalom, and live peaceably under it, and so an entire end of the war.

2 Samuel 17:3 In-Context

1 Und Ahitophel sprach zu Absalom: Laß mich doch zwölftausend Mann auslesen, und mich aufmachen und diese Nacht David nachjagen;

2 und ich werde über ihn kommen, während er müde und an Händen schlaff ist, und ihn in Schrecken setzen; und alles Volk, das bei ihm ist, wird fliehen, und ich werde den König allein schlagen;

3 und so werde ich alles Volk zu dir zurückbringen. Gleich der Rückkehr aller ist der Mann, den du suchst: das ganze Volk wird in Frieden sein.

4 Und das Wort war recht in den Augen Absaloms und in den Augen aller Ältesten von Israel.

5 Und Absalom sprach: Rufe doch auch Husai, den Arkiter, daß wir hören, was auch er sagt.