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ANGUISH - The Hebrew word used here occurs nowhere else, and is of
doubtful meaning (compare the margin). The rabbis interpret it as a
cramp or giddiness....
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
I. DAVID KING OF JUDAH AND THE EVENTS OF HIS REIGN
1. David's Lamentation for Saul and Jonathan
CHAPTER 1
_ 1. The Death of Saul and Jonathan announced to David (2 Samuel...
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DAVID RECEIVES THE NEWS OF SAUL'S DEATH. The account of the death of
Saul told by the fugitive here is different from that in 1 Samuel 31.
A common explanation is that the fugitive falsely represented...
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HE SAID. His whole story was. fabrication. See the facts in 1 Samuel
31:4; 1 Samuel 31:5.
LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
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_Stand … upon me_ Rather, STAND BY ME, or, RISE UP AGAINST ME, and
similarly in 2 Samuel 1:10. Saul is represented in 2 Samuel 1:6 as
still upright, not as lying prostrate on the ground.
_anguish_ The...
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FOR ANGUISH IS COME UPON ME— The word שׁבצ _shabatz,_ signifies
an inclosing, or inclosure; and the meaning seems to be, _"kill me,_
because an _inclosure,_ or inclosing part of the enemy, has seized...
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I. DAVID MADE KING OF ISRAEL, 2 Samuel 1:1 to 2 Samuel 5:25.
1. David Receives News of Saul's Death, 2 Samuel 1:1-27.
_The Amalekite's account of Said's Death._...
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_AND DAVID SAID UNTO HIM, FROM WHENCE COMEST THOU? AND HE SAID UNTO
HIM, OUT OF THE CAMP OF ISRAEL AM I ESCAPED._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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1:9 anguish (a-16) Others, 'bewilderment.'...
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THE LAMENT OF DAVID OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN
1. There is no break between the two books of Samuel; they really form
one continuous narrative. This v. is a continuation of 1 Samuel 30,
which describes D...
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DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL
2 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
ABOUT THE BOOK OF 2 SAMUEL
The book of 2 Samuel records the life of David as king. There are
several accounts of events in 2 Samuel that ar...
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ANGUISH IS COME UPON ME. — The word for “anguish” occurs only
here, and probably does not have either of the meanings given to it in
the text and margin of our version. The Rabbis explain it of _cramp...
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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֗י עֲמָד ־נָ֤א עָלַי֙
וּ
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CHAPTER I.
_ DAVD'S LAMENT FOR SAUL AND JONATHAN._
2 Samuel 1:1.
DAVID had returned to Ziklag from the slaughter of the Amalekites only
two days before he heard of the death of Saul. He had returned...
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TOUCH NOT MINE ANOINTED
2 Samuel 1:1
The scene changes from Gilboa to Ziklag, whither the tidings were
carried by an Amalekite. It is remarkable to notice how David received
them. Though he had spent...
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The second Book of Samuel deals largely with the story of David, and
presents the picture of the theocratic monarchy. The first movement
records the progress of David to the position which God had app...
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He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for
anguish is come upon me, because my (d) life [is] yet whole in me.
(d) I am sorry, because I am yet alive....
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_Anguish. Hebrew, "the coat of mail withholds me." Septuagint, "horrid
darkness encompasses me." Shabah, signifies a coat of mail, made of
cloth, very thick, and boiled in vinegar, to render it more
i...
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(3) And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto
him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped. (4) And David said unto
him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answe...
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We have seen the sorrowful circumstances out of which arose the first
desire to have a king in Israel, and the remarkable fact that,
although it was a sin, God nevertheless did not put the people back...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2.
Nevertheless piety, and pious (and hence generous) sentiments, were
genuine in David. He did not pretend to feel for Saul's misfortunes,
and then sei...
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AND HE SAID UNTO ME AGAIN, STAND, I PRAY THEE, UPON ME, AND SLAY
ME,.... Which it can hardly be thought Saul would say; since he might
as well have died by the hands of the uncircumcised Philistines,...
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He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for
anguish is come upon me, because my life [is] yet whole in me.
Ver. 9. For anguish _a_ is come upon me.] Or, My _chlamys ocellata,...
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_For anguish is come upon me_ The Hebrew word שׁבצ _shabats_, here
rendered anguish, seems to be wrongly translated in this place. It is
rendered _ocellata chlamys_, by Buxtorf, _a wrought_, _embroide...
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[DAUID HEARETH OF SAULS DEATH.]
1 The Amalekite, who brought tidings of the ouerthrow, and accused
himselfe of Sauls death, is slaine.
17 Dauid lamenteth Saul and Ionathan with a song.
1 NOW it cam...
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He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, by stepping up
very closely to him, AND SLAY ME; FOR ANGUISH IS COME UPON ME, he had
been seized with a cramp and found himself unable to wield his...
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THE MESSAGE OF THE AMALEKITE...
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Verse 1 shows us that David's slaughter of the Amalekites took place
at about the same time as the Philistine defeat of Israel. David had
been two days at Ziklag when a man came from the scene of this...
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ANGUISH IS COME UPON ME:
Or, my coat of male (Or, my embroidered coat) hindereth me, that my,
etc....
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1-10 The blow which opened David's way to the throne was given about
the time he had been sorely distressed. Those who commit their
concerns to the Lord, will quietly abide his will. It shows that he...
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STAND UPON ME, i.e. lean upon me by thy weight and force, that the
spear may come through me; or, _stay by me_, i.e. stop thy flight, and
tarry so long with me till thou hast killed me. ANGUISH IS COM...
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THE THOROUGH DEFEAT OF ISRAEL AND THE DEATH OF SAUL (1 SAMUEL 31:1 -2
SAMUEL 1:27).
Having initially demonstrated how God's purposes are moving forward in
David, the writer now describes the humiliati...
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THE TIDINGS CONCERNING THE DEATH OF SAUL ARE BROUGHT TO DAVID (2
SAMUEL 1:1).
The theme of the death of Saul continues with a description of how the
news was brought to David. It came by means of an A...
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CONTENTS: David mourns the death of Saul and Jonathan.
CHARACTERS: God, David, Saul, Jonathan, an Amalekite.
CONCLUSION: He that is deeply concerned for the honor of God cannot
rejoice in the afflic...
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2 Samuel 1:6. _Mount Gilboa,_ two miles from mount Tabor. The battle
was fought near the place where Barak fought with Sisera.
2 Samuel 1:10. _The crown and the bracelet._ A true mercenary soldier.
He...
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_A man came out of the camp._
THE MAN WHO PROFESSED TO HAVE SLAIN SAUL
On the day that Saul fell by his own hand, and before his body had
been discovered by the Philistines, an Amalekite, passing by,...
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2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 1:1 Story of King David. Most of 2 Samuel
1:1 tells of David’s rise to kingship, first over Judah and then
over all Israel. Most of the problems D
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2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 1:6 SO I STOOD BESIDE HIM AND KILLED HIM
(v. 2 Samuel 1:10). The narrator in...
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES.—
2 Samuel 1:6. “THE CHARIOTS AND HORSEMEN.” It has been remarked
that it is extremely unlikely that chariots and horsemen, pursued the
Israelites on to the mountains, a...
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EXPOSITION
2 SAMUEL 1:1
NOW IT CAME TO PASS. During the last few days events had been crowding
fast upon one another. Living as fugitives at Ziklag, in the land of
the Philistines, David and his men,...
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Second Samuel, chapter one.
First Samuel dealt with the reign of King Saul over Israel, and it
ends with the death of Saul at the hands of the Philistines. Saul, the
tragic story of a man who had many...
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Exodus 28:20; Exodus 28:39; Genesis 44:30...