TOP. Compare 2 Samuel 15:32. BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. MEPHIBOSHETH. Now thirty-one. Born in 965. Compare 2 Samuel 4:4. BOTTLE. skin-bottle (Joshua 9:4.Matthew 9:17; Matthew 9:17). WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ See App-27.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SAID. This was slander. See 2 Samuel 19:24, and compare the two Structures.... [ Continue Reading ]
BAHURIM. On east side of Olivet; "in tribe of Benjamin". MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
COME OUT. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_ (App-6): i.e. out -Be-gone! or Get out! BLOODY MAN. man of bloods (plural denoting much blood). THOU MAN OF BELIAL. Compare 1 Samuel 1:16; 1 Samuel 10:27.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
DEAD DOG. Figure of speech _Antiprosopopceia._ App-6. Compare 1 Samuel 17:43, LET ME GO. Compare 1 Samuel 26:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT HAVE. TO DO... ? First occurrence of this idiom. Figure of speech _Erotesis_ (App-6). Compare 2 Samuel 19:22. 1Ki 17:18. 2 Kings 3:13.Matthew 8:29. Mark I. 24.Luke 4:34.John 2:4. SONS OF ZERUIAH. Compare 2 Samuel 3:39 and Luke 9:55. LET HIM CURSE. Uriah. s murder closed David's mouth (2 Sa [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. HOW MUCH. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
LOOK ON MINE AFFLICTION. This is one of the eighteen emendations of the _Sopherim_ (App-33). The primitive text reads "Jehovah will behold with His eye". This was thought to be too anthropomorphic, and so was altered, and the alteration recorded. REQUITE. Compare Psalms 109:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14. CAST DUST. Hebrew "dusted him with dust". Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6): i.e. cast much dust.... [ Continue Reading ]
WEARY. Hebrew. _Ayiphim._ Perhaps the name of. place, or of. caravansary with that name, "for the weary".... [ Continue Reading ]
CHOOSE. hath chosen.... [ Continue Reading ]
SAID. Instigated by feelings of private revenge against David for his sin with Bath-sheba; she being the daughter of his son, ELIAM. See 2 Samuel 23:34. Compare 2 Samuel 11:3. Foretold by Nathan (2 Samuel 12:11; 2 Samuel 12:12).... [ Continue Reading ]
THE TOP OF THE HOUSE. Compare 2 Samuel 11:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS. according as. ORACLE. word. The first occurrence of "oracle" as. rendering (fifteen times) of _dabar,_ word. The holy of holies, because there the word of Jehovah was heard. Other occurrences: see 1 Kings 6:5 1 Kings 6:16, 1 Kings 6:19; 1 Kings 6:20 1 Kings 6:22, 1 Kings 6:23; 1 Kings 6:31; 1 Ki... [ Continue Reading ]