2 Samuel 15 (JND) - Bible Truth Library

mount Olivet.Mount Olivet, so called from its abounding with olive trees, is situated east of Jerusalem, being separated from it only by the valley of Jehoshaphat and the brook Kidron.

Josephus says it is five stadia, i.e., 625 geometrical paces from Jerusalem; and St. Luke (Ac 1:12) says it is a Sabbath day's journey, or about eight stadia distant, i.e., to the summit.

It forms part of a ridge of limestone hills, extending from north to south for about a mile; and it is described as having three, or, according to others, four summits; the central and highest of which overlooks the whole of the city, over whose streets and walls the eye roves as if in the survey of a model.and wept as he went up.

Heb. going up and weeping.

Psa. 42:3‑11• ³My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
⁴These things I remember and have poured out my soul within me: how I passed along with the multitude, how I went on with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a festive multitude.
⁵Why art thou cast down, my soul, and art disquieted in me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, for the health of his countenance.
⁶My God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and the Hermons, from mount Mizar.
⁷Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy cataracts; all thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.
⁸In the day-time will Jehovah command his loving-kindness, and in the night his song shall be with me, a prayer unto the *God of my life.
⁹I will say unto *God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
¹⁰As with a crushing in my bones mine adversaries reproach me, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
¹¹Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. (Psa. 42:3‑11)

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Psa. 43:1‑2,5• ¹Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; deliver me from the deceitful and unrighteous man.
²For thou art the God of my strength: why hast thou cast me off? why go I about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
⁵Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. (Psa. 43:1‑2,5)

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Luke 19:41• ⁴¹And as he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, (Luke 19:41)

his head covered.This custom was only practised by persons in great distress, or when convicted of great crimes.

Thus Darius, when informed by Tyriotes, the eunuch, that his queen was dead, and that she had suffered no violence from Alexander, covered his head, and wept a long time; then throwing off the garment that covered him, he thanked the gods for Alexander's moderation and justice.

2 Sam. 19:4• ⁴And the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, My son Absalom! Absalom, my son, my son! (2 Sam. 19:4)

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Esther 6:12• ¹²And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house, mourning and having his head covered. (Esther 6:12)

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barefoot.

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Ezek. 24:17,23• ¹⁷Sigh in silence, make no mourning for the dead; bind thy turban upon thee, and put thy sandals upon thy feet, and cover not the beard, and eat not the bread of men.
²³and your turbans shall be upon your heads, and your sandals upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall waste away in your iniquities and moan one toward another. (Ezek. 24:17,23)

weeping.

Psa. 126:5‑6• ⁵They that sow in tears shall reap with rejoicing:
⁶He goeth forth and weepeth, bearing seed for scattering; he cometh again with rejoicing, bearing his sheaves. (Psa. 126:5‑6)

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Matt. 5:4• ⁴Blessed they that mourn, for *they* shall be comforted. (Matt. 5:4)

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Rom. 12:15• ¹⁵Rejoice with those that rejoice, weep with those that weep. (Rom. 12:15)

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1 Cor. 12:26• ²⁶And if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; and if one member be glorified, all the members rejoice with it. (1 Cor. 12:26)

• For David it was a day of shame, not only for the people and his guilty son, but not without ground for himself personally; it was a day when he could not deny the righteous hand of God stretched out over him and his seed in the correction of faults neither few nor light. (“2 Samuel 15” by W. Kelly)

• David goes up the ascent of the mount of Olives weeping, barefoot, with his head covered. The people following him mourn like he. Christ endured and bore this humiliation toward the end of His career in sympathy for his loved people. He who wept over Jerusalem found Himself grappling with Satan's terrible assault at Gethsemane. (“David's Flight: 2 Samuel 15” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

But David went up by the ascent of the Olives, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot; and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.