2Sa 16:15-16 | KD | STEP | When Absalom and “all the people, the men of Israel,” i.e., the people who had joined him out of all the tribes of Israel ( ), came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him, Hushai the Archite also came and greeted him warmly as king, by exclaiming again and again, “Long live the king!”

‏ 2 Samuel 16:15-16

When Absalom and “all the people, the men of Israel,” i.e., the people who had joined him out of all the tribes of Israel (2Sa 15:10), came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him, Hushai the Archite also came and greeted him warmly as king, by exclaiming again and again, “Long live the king!”