by the gate: 2 Samuel 18:24; Isaiah 28:6
by hundreds: David's small company, by this time, was greatly recruited; but what its number was we cannot tell. Josephus says it amounted only to 4,000 men. 2 Samuel 18:1; 1 Samuel 29:2
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2 Samuel 18:4
2 Samuel 18:4
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