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All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
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A Prophetic Path of Sorrow
Commentators highlight that David crossing the Kidron brook in sorrow is a powerful foreshadowing of his descendant, Jesus Christ. Centuries later, Jesus would cross the very same brook on his way to the Garden of Gethsemane to face betrayal and begin his path to the cross. David's painful exile prefigures the suffering of the ultimate King.
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2 Samuel
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19th Century
Anglican
The brook Kidron. —A valley with a watercourse, filled in winter, lying immediately east of Jerusalem, between the city and the Mo…
Baptist
And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite passed over and all his men, and all the little ones that were with him. And a…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And all the country wept with a loud voice The people that came out of the country villages round about, upon the re…
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Presbyterian
David determined to leave Jerusalem. He took this resolve as a penitent submitting to the rod. Before unrighteous Absalom, he could justify himself…
