Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
ABSALOM STEALS THE HEARTS OF ISRAEL. (2 Samuel 15:1-9)
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 (1 Kings 1:5). 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."
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
1 Samuel 22:17-18
2 Samuel 15:1
1 Kings 1:5-6
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