Teks -- 2 Samuel 16:22-23 (NET)

16:22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom had sex with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel. 16:23 In those days Ahithophel’s advice was considered as valuable as a prophetic revelation. Both David and Absalom highly regarded the advice of Ahithophel.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: 2Sa 16:22 - The top

Of the king's palace, the very place from whence David had gazed upon Bathsheba, 2Sa 11:2, so that his sin was legible in the very place of his punishment.

Wesley: 2Sa 16:22 - Went in

To one, or some of them. And by so doing did farther make claim to the kingdom; and, as it were, take possession of it. It being usual in the eastern countries to account the wives and concubines of the late king, to belong of right to the successor.

Wesley: 2Sa 16:22 - Israel

Who saw him go into the tent; and thence concluded, that he lay with them, as he had designed to do. God had threatened by Nathan, that for his defiling Bathsheba, David's own wives should be defiled in the face of the sun. This is now fulfilled: the Lord is righteous; and no word of his shall fall to the ground.

Wesley: 2Sa 16:23 - The counsel, &c.

_It was received by the people with equal veneration, and was usually attended with as certain success. Which is mentioned as the reason why a counsel which had so ill a face, should meet with such general approbation.

Defender: 2Sa 16:22 - unto his father's concubines

This event both fulfilled Nathan's judgmental prophecy against David because of his sin (2Sa 12:11, 2Sa 12:12) and also signaled to all Jerusalem that he was taking over all the prerogatives of the king (2Sa 3:6-11)."

TSK: 2Sa 16:22 - the top // went in

the top : 2Sa 11:2

went in : 2Sa 12:11, 2Sa 12:12, 2Sa 15:16, 2Sa 20:3; Num 25:6; Isa 3:9; Jer 3:3, Jer 8:12; Eze 24:7; Phi 3:19

TSK: 2Sa 16:23 - as if // oracle of God // so was // all the counsel // both

as if : Num 27:21; 1Sa 30:8; Psa 28:2; 1Pe 4:11

oracle of God : Heb. word of God, Psa 19:7

so was : The first counsel of this sagacious but wicked man to Absalom was more like an oracle of Satan, both for subtlety and atrocity. He advised the shameless measure just detailed, in order to establish Absalom, and to preclude the possibility of a reconciliation with David. The wives of a conquered king were always the property of the conqueror; and in possessing these he appeared to possess the right to the kingdom.

all the counsel : 2Sa 17:14, 2Sa 17:23; Job 5:12, Job 28:28; Jer 4:22, Jer 8:9; Mat 11:25; Luk 16:8; Rom 1:22; 1Co 3:19, 1Co 3:20; Jam 3:13-18

both : 2Sa 15:12; Ecc 10:1

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 2Sa 16:22 - Upon the top of the house // Unto his father’ s concubines // In the sight of all Israel

Upon the top of the house to wit, of the king’ s palace, the very place from whence David had spied and gazed upon Bath-sheba, 2Sa 11:2 . So that his sin was legible in the very place of his punishment.

Unto his father’ s concubines i.e. to one or some of them; and by so doing did further make claim to the kingdom as his own; and, as it were, take possession of it; it being usual in the eastern countries to account the wives and concubines of the late king to belong of right to the successor: See Poole on 2Sa 12:8.

In the sight of all Israel who saw him go into the tent, and thence concluded that he lay with them, as he had designed to do.

Poole: 2Sa 16:23 - Was as if a man had inquired at the oracle of God // With David

Was as if a man had inquired at the oracle of God it was received by the people with equal authority and veneration, and was usually attended with as certain success; which is mentioned as the reason why a counsel which had so ill a face, should meet with such general approbation.

With David to whose pious disposition he accommodated himself, as policy obliged him; but being weary of it, he takes this first occasion to discover himself, and execute that wickedness which before lay in his heart.

Haydock: 2Sa 16:22 - Israel

Israel, who saw him enter the tents, (Calmet) on the flat roof, chap. xi. 2., and xii. 11. (Haydock) ---

The wives of the conquered king were reserved for the victor. Smerdis married all the wives of his predecessor, Cambyses. (Herodotus iii. 68, 83.) (Calmet)

Haydock: 2Sa 16:23 - Absalom

Absalom. It tended to promote the end which was desired, (Haydock) whether good or bad. His prudence is hyperbolically compared with the divine oracles; (Menochius) and his authority must have had great weight, since David began to take precautions, only after he had heard that Achitophel had joined the rebels; and Absalom was persuaded (Calmet) to perpetrate so foul and unnatural a crime publicly, no one daring to make any opposition. Chusai was silent; as he was aware that, if he began to contradict this counsellor at first, he would only incur suspicion. (Haydock) ---

The unjust commonly endeavour by all means to attach people to themselves: but God, in the end, turns their counsels against themselves. (Worthington)

Gill: 2Sa 16:22 - So they spread Absalom a tent on the top of the house // and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel

So they spread Absalom a tent on the top of the house,.... On the top of his father's palace; this, as houses in Jerusalem and Judea were, was built flat, Deu 22:8; and it was on the very spot from whence David had a sight of Bathsheba, and conceived an impure lust after her. The Targum renders it, a canopy; which Kimchi describes as consisting of four pillars, upon and round about which curtains were hung:

and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel; they saw the tent or canopy erected, and saw him go into it, and might reasonably conclude he lay with his father's concubines, or half wives, in it; and this being done in so public a manner fulfilled the prophecy, which said it should be done in the sight of the sun, and of all Israel, 2Sa 12:11; this shows how corrupt the people of Israel were at this time, at least those that were with Absalom, that there should be none to object to the counsel Ahithophel gave, nor any to remonstrate against the execution of it, but all seemed to look upon it with pleasure; nor even did Hushai, David's friend, oppose it; perhaps he saw it was to no purpose.

Gill: 2Sa 16:23 - And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he had counselled in those days // was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God // so was all the counsel of Ahithophel, both with David and with Absalom

And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he had counselled in those days,.... Both in the days of David, and in the days of Absalom, before and since the rebellion:

was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God; such an opinion was entertained of it, so well satisfied were they with it, and as confident of success in taking it, as if the Lord himself had been consulted by Urim and Thummim; this is a very great exaggeration of Ahithophel's counsel, and is observed as a reason why it was so readily taken, though so bad in the preceding instance:

so was all the counsel of Ahithophel, both with David and with Absalom; Ahithophel was a crafty man, a time server, that temporized with princes, and knew how to suit his counsels with their tempers and interests: to David he gave good counsel, what was acceptable with him, and to Absalom bad counsel, which was pleasing to him.