Adam Clarke Commentary - 2 Samuel 20:15

Adam Clarke Commentary - 2 Samuel 20:15 - 20:15

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Adam Clarke Commentary - 2 Samuel 20:15 - 20:15

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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

20:1 - 20:1
20:3 - 20:3
20:4 - 20:4
20:8 - 20:8
20:10 - 20:10
20:11 - 20:11
20:12 - 20:12
20:14 - 20:14
20:15 - 20:15
20:16 - 20:16
20:18 - 20:18
20:19 - 20:19
20:21 - 20:21
20:23 - 20:23
20:24 - 20:24
20:25 - 20:25
20:26 - 20:26

They cast up a bank against the city - The word סללה solelah, which we render bank, means, most probably, a battering engine of some kind, or a tower overlooking the walls, on which archers and slingers could stand and annoy the inhabitants, while others of the besiegers could proceed to sap the walls. That it cannot be a bank that stood in the trench, is evident from the circumstance thus expressed.