2 Samuel 1:1
THE SLAUGHTER. Compare 1 Samuel 30:17 ZIKLAG. Compare 1 Samuel 27:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SLAUGHTER. Compare 1 Samuel 30:17 ZIKLAG. Compare 1 Samuel 27:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE THIRD DAY. See note on 1 Samuel 30:12. _behold. Figure of speech Asterismos._ App-6. MAN _. Hebrew. 'ish._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE ANSWERED. He thought he brought news which would be welcomed.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD... LO. Figure of speech _Asterismos.App-6._... [ Continue Reading ]
AMALEKITE. Thus Saul was dishonoured by one whom his disobedience spared. Compare 1 Samuel 15:3 and Exodus 17:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
FALLEN: i.e. upon his own sword (1 Samuel 31:4).... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14,... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THY BLOOD. Compare 2 Samuel 1:10. THY HEAD. thyself. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part). App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. sons. THE USE OF. The _Ellipsis_ is wrongly supplied. The word "Lamentation" should be repeated from 2 Samuel 1:17. "The Bow" being the _subject_ of the Lamentation (2 Samuel 1:22). the BOW. This is the name of the Lamentation, be-cause it is mentioned in 2 Samuel 1:22. and it is what the... [ Continue Reading ]
BEAUTY. gazelle. Symbolic of beauty and grace.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SHIELD OF SAUL. Omit the italics that follow, and supply instead "the weapon of one anointed with oil", the Hebrew _k. li (or keli?)_ "weapons" being read instead of _b. ll_ in the first edition of the _Hebrew Bible,_ 1488, and the Syriac and Arabic Versions and Chaldee paraphrase.... [ Continue Reading ]
SWIFTER... STRONGER. Figure of speech _Hyperbole.App-6._... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW, &c. Render: "How [is it that] mighty ones have fallen, and weapons of war have perished".... [ Continue Reading ]