2 Samuel 2:29

29 Abner e seus soldados marcharam pela Arabá durante toda a noite. Atravessaram o Jordão, marcharam durante a manhã^[a] inteira e chegaram a Maanaim.

2 Samuel 2:29 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 2:29

And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain,
&c.] The plain of Jordan. He marched with his men all night, lest Joab should return, and pursue him, and take vengeance on him for the death of his brother:

and passed over Jordan;
at one of the fords of it:

and went through all Bithron;
the name of a province or country, as Jarchi, called so perhaps from its being separated from the rest of the tribes of Israel by the river Jordan; some think the mountains of Bether were in this country, ( Song of Solomon 2:17 ) . From Gibeon, where the battle was fought, to Bithron, according to Bunting ^F15, was twenty eight miles, the which he says was in the tribe of Gad, twenty eight miles from Jerusalem northeastward, lying between Dibon and Jordan:

and they came to Mahanaim:
from whence they came, and where they had left Ishbosheth, ( 2 Samuel 2:8 2 Samuel 2:12 ) . From Bithron to this place, according to the same writer ^F16, was sixteen miles.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 Travels p. 145, 146.
F16 Ibid.

2 Samuel 2:29 In-Context

27 Respondeu Joabe: “Juro pelo nome de Deus que, se você não tivesse falado, o meu exército perseguiria os seus irmãos até de manhã”.

28 Então Joabe tocou a trombeta, e o exército parou de perseguir Israel e de lutar.

29 Abner e seus soldados marcharam pela Arabá durante toda a noite. Atravessaram o Jordão, marcharam durante a manhã inteira e chegaram a Maanaim.

30 Quando Joabe voltou da perseguição a Abner, reuniu todo o exército. E viram que faltavam dezenove soldados, além de Asael.

31 Mas os soldados de Davi tinham matado trezentos e sessenta benjamitas que estavam com Abner.

Footnotes

• [a]. Ou "por toda a região de Bitrom; " ou ainda "pelo vale"