사무엘하 15:11의 미드라쉬

[Another interpretation (of Gen. 30:22): THEN GOD REMEMBERED RACHEL.] This text is related (to Ps. 55:19 [18]): HE HAS DELIVERED MY LIFE IN SAFETY (literally: IN PEACE) FROM THOSE WHO COME ABOUT ME; FOR THOSE WITH ME ARE MANY.⁵⁰Cf. Numb. R. 9:24; cf. also Gen. R. 73:3; M. Pss. 55:4. Who spoke this verse? David spoke it when his son Absalom rebelled against him and said to him (in II Sam. 15:7): PLEASE LET ME GO TO FULFILL MY VOW WHICH I VOWED TO THE LORD IN HEBRON. Then his father said to him (in vs. 9): GO IN PEACE; SO HE AROSE AND WENT TO HEBRON. Absalom said to him: I desire one thing from you, that you give me two elders to go with me so that I may do whatever I do in accordance with them. He wrote him [a letter] for two elders go with him from any city that he wanted. He took the letter and went to each and every city. Then, when he saw two of the oldest and best in the city, he would show them [the letter] and say to them: See what my father has written for me. However, because I like you a lot, I want you. This he did in each and every city until he had gotten two hundred elders, as stated (in vs. 11): WITH ABSALOM THERE WENT TWO HUNDRED MEN. What is the meaning of TWO HUNDRED MEN? R. Huna said in the name of R. Hiyya bar Abba: He took two hundred Sanhedrin presidents with him, just as you say (in Numb. 11:16): GATHER ME SEVENTY MEN.⁵¹The context explains (vss. 10-14, 17, 25) that these elders are to receive the Holy Spirit so that they can share with Moses the burden of governing and prophesying. (II Sam. 15:11, cont.:) BEING INVITED, THEY WENT IN THEIR NAIVETE AND KNEW NOTHING, since they did not know where they were going. Absalom made a feast for them; and < each > pair of elders sat down with one of those who had rebelled along with him between them. Then that one who was reclining between the pair of them would say: How fine Absalom would be as king. Let us leave David and go with him. What did they do? Even though they were with him, they would only pray for David. And what did they pray? May it be your will, O Lord God, that we fall by David's hand and not that David fall by our hand! It is therefore stated (by David in Ps. 55:19): FOR THOSE WITH ME ARE MANY.