1. Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him —This was assuming the state and equipage of a prince. The royal guards, called runners, avant couriers, amounted to fifty ( :- ). The chariot, as the Hebrew indicates, was of a magnificent style; and the horses, a novelty among the Hebrew people, only introduced in that age as an appendage of royalty ( Psalms 32:9 ; Psalms 66:12 ), formed a splendid retinue, which would make him "the observed of all observers." return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-2" class="com-number"
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