Teks -- 2 Samuel 17:23 (NET)

17:23 When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave of his father.

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

Wesley: 2Sa 17:23 - Hanged himself

See here contempt poured upon the wisdom of man! He that was more renowned for policy than ever any man was, played the fool with himself more than ever any man did. See likewise honour done to the justice of God! The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.

JFB: 2Sa 17:23 - when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed

His vanity was wounded, his pride mortified on finding that his ascendency was gone; but that chagrin was aggravated by other feelings--a painful conviction that through the delay which had been resolved on, the cause of Absalom was lost. Hastening home, therefore, he arranged his private affairs, and knowing that the storm of retributive vengeance would fall chiefly upon him as the instigator and prop of the rebellion, he hanged himself. It may be remarked that the Israelites did not, at that time, refuse the rites of sepulture even to those who died by their own hands. He had an imitator in Judas, who resembled him in his treason, as well as in his infamous end.

Clarke: 2Sa 17:23 - Put his household in order

Put his household in order - This self-murder could not be called lunacy, as every step to it was deliberate. He foresaw Absalom’ s ruin; and he did not choose to witness it, and share in the disgrace: and he could expect no mercy at the hands of David. He was a very bad man, and died an unprepared and accursed death.

TSK: 2Sa 17:23 - saw // followed // his city // put his household in order // and hanged

saw : Pro 16:18, Pro 19:3

followed : Heb. done

his city : 2Sa 15:12

put his household in order : Heb. gave charge concerning his house, 2Ki 20:1

and hanged : 2Sa 15:31; 1Sa 31:4, 1Sa 31:5; 1Ki 16:18; Job 31:3; Psa 5:10, Psa 55:23; Mat 27:5

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

Poole: 2Sa 17:23 - Hanged himself

Put his household in order; disposed of his estate by will. Compare Isa 38:1 .

Hanged himself partly because he could not endure to outlive his disgrace, and the rejection of his counsel; and partly because he foresaw by this means David would gain time and strength, and in all probability be victorious, and then the storm would fall most heavily upon his head, as the main author and pillar of the rebellion, and the contriver of those two pernicious counsels above mentioned.

Gill: 2Sa 17:23 - And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed // he saddled his ass // and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city // and put his household in order // and hanged himself // and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed,.... But that of Hushai:

he saddled his ass; or ordered it to be saddled:

and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city; which was Giloh in the tribe of Judah, 2Sa 15:12,

and put his household in order; made his will, and disposed of his estates, see Isa 38:1; or "commanded his house" or "household" ^t; gave orders and instructions, both relating to himself when dead, where and how he should be buried, and to his family, how they should behave to one another and among their neighbours, and towards their superiors; and particularly, the Jews say ^u, he gave them this charge, not to rebel against the government of the house of David:

and hanged himself; so to his other sins added that of suicide, which was done deliberately, as the preceding clause shows; this he did, partly because his proud spirit could not bear it that his counsel should be slighted, and that of another be preferred to it; and partly because he plainly foresaw that the cause of Absalom would be ruined by neglecting his counsel and following that of Hushai's, whereby he himself would fall into the hands of David, and be put to death by him as a traitor; and he chose to die by his own hand, and not his; and the rather, to prevent the confiscation of his goods and estates as a traitor, and his heirs being deprived of them; though some think he died of a disease, by strangling or suffocation in the throat, was choked through grief and trouble; so R. Elias observes ^w, that some say that this disease came upon him through the greatness of his grief of mind and trouble of soul, because his counsel was not taken, and he died of strangling; and they say this, because they reckon it an absurdity for so wise and understanding a man as he was to hang himself; but the case seems very clear that he did kill himself; the Jews say ^x he was but thirty three years of age when he died; for being a bloody and deceitful man, he did not live out half his days, Psa 55:23; which psalm was penned on his account; but one so young could hardly be a counsellor of David, and so famous for his wise counsel; and besides, if so young, could not be the grandfather of Bathsheba, as the Jews say:

and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father; though he died an ignominious death, he had an honourable burial; it perhaps not being usual in those times to put any mark of infamy on those that killed themselves, by refusing them interment in the common burying places of their friends and neighbours.