2 Samuel 18:1
NUMBERED. mustered, or inspected. David, was now fifty-six.... [ Continue Reading ]
NUMBERED. mustered, or inspected. David, was now fifty-six.... [ Continue Reading ]
SUCCOUR US OUT OF THE CITY. come to us out of the city with succour by prayer and counsel.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEARD. this explains 2 Samuel 18:12... [ Continue Reading ]
WOOD OF EPHRAIM. Compare Joshua 17:15... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FACE. Figure of speech _Pleonasm,_ with _Prosopopceia._ App-6. devoured. Hebrew "multiplied to devour", to emphasise the great number. Figure of speech _Prosopopaia._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
TAKEN UP. The tradition about his "hair" comes from Josephus 2 Samuel 10:2).... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN. Hebrew. _'ish_. App-14. BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
GIRDLE. A common present, made of silk, linen, or leather, and worked sometimes in gold. Used for fastening up loose garments.... [ Continue Reading ]
OUR HEARING. See 2 Samuel 18:5 BEWARE THAT NONE TOUCH. _Watch_ any one who (would touch) the, &c. After "Watch", Septuagint, Aramaean, Syriac, and Vulgate add "for my sake", _as_ in 2 Samuel 18:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
DARTS. clubs. Hebrew. _shebet,_. club _with a_ long spike at the end. Still used in Palestine.... [ Continue Reading ]
ARMOUR. weapons. SLEW HIM. David being fifty-seven years old; Absalom, twenty-four; Solomon, seven.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEAP OF STONES. Not. memorial to honour but to warn (Joshua 7:26; Joshua 8:29). See note on 2 Samuel 18:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
PILLAR. Marks ambition's aim, while the heap of stones (2 Samuel 18:17) marks ambition's end. NO SON. Compare 2 Samuel 14:27. Therefore built, before the first-born; or after his sons (2 Samuel 14:27) were dead. place-monument. About. quarter of. mile east of Jerusalem, in the Valley of Jehoshaphat... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
BETWEEN THE TWO GATES. The outer and inner gates of the city wall.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF HE BE ALONE. Otherwise it would be flight.... [ Continue Reading ]
PORTER. gatekeeper. No gates without the "Bawab "or gatekeeper. Compare 2 Kings 7:17; 1 Chronicles 9:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOOD. Compare 1 Kings 1:42.... [ Continue Reading ]
BLESSED BE THE LORD THY GOD. Some codices, with three early printed editions, reverse the order, thus changing the emphasis, and read: "Jehovah thy God be blessed". GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim_. App-4. MEN. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND. even. WHAT IT WAS. what [it meant].... [ Continue Reading ]
BE AS THAT YOUNG MAN. Figure of speech _Euphemism._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
MY SON... MY SON. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis._ App-6. for. instead of.... [ Continue Reading ]