THEOSISTheodoret of Cyrus
A crowd of shield-wielders and spear-wielders followed him, accompanied by six hundred elite soldiers and Ephaeus the Geffein, who had recently departed from his homeland and, along with his followers, had become a foreigner.
2 Kingdoms (2 Samuel) 15:18Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And all his servants walked by him, and the bands of the Cerethi, and the Phelethi, and all the Gethites, valiant warriors, six hundred men who had followed him from Geth on foot, went before the king.
וְכָל־עֲבָדָיו֙ עֹבְרִ֣ים עַל־יָד֔וֹ וְכָל־הַכְּרֵתִ֖י וְכָל־הַפְּלֵתִ֑י וְכָֽל־הַגִּתִּ֞ים שֵׁשׁ־מֵא֣וֹת אִ֗ישׁ אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֤אוּ בְרַגְלוֹ֙ מִגַּ֔ת עֹבְרִ֖ים עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 2 Sam 8:18And Banaias the son of Joiada was over the Cerethi and Phelethi: and the sons of David were the princes.
- 1 Sam 30:14For we made an invasion on the south side of Cerethi, and upon Juda, and upon the south of Caleb, and we burnt Siceleg with fire.
- 1 Chr 18:17And Banaias the son of Joiada was over the bands of the Cerethi, and the Phelethi: and the sons of David were chief about the king.
- 2 Sam 20:23So Joab was over all the army of Israel: and Banaias the son of Joiada was over the Cerethites and Phelethites,
- 2 Sam 20:7So Joab's men went out with him, and the Cerethi and the Phelethi: and all the valiant men went out of Jerusalem to pursue after Seba the son of Bochri.
- 2 Sam 15:19And the king said to Ethai the Gethite: Why comest thou with us: return and dwell with the king, for thou art a stranger, and art come out of thy own place.
- 2 Sam 15:22And David said to Ethai: Come, and pass over. And Ethai the Gethite passed, and all the men that were with him, and the rest of the people.
- 2 Sam 6:10And he would not have the ark of the Lord brought in to himself into the city of David: but he caused it to be carried into the house of Obededom the Gethite.