2 Samuel 5:1
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos.App-6._... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos.App-6._... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. FEED. feed as. shepherd.... [ Continue Reading ]
MADE. LEAGUE. solemnised. covenant. anointed David. See note on 1 Samuel 16:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14. SAYING. What they said must be rendered thus "Thou shalt not come in hither, for the blind and the lame shall drive thee away [by saying]`David shall not come in hither.. ... [ Continue Reading ]
THE STRONG HOLD OF ZION: i.e. the hill of Ophel, immediately south of Moriah. ZION. First occurrence. Occurs 154 times in O.T. (7. 22, App-10); used later (especially in prophecy) of the whole city. See App-68. THE CITY OF DAVID. Which is on Jebus, therefore, and not on the west side. First occurr... [ Continue Reading ]
TO THE GUTTER. by (or through) the _zinnor,_. rock-cut passage from the lower Gihon or En-Rogel (now the Virgin's Fount on east of Ophel), leading up into the _city_ and supplying water. Discovered by Sir Charles Warren. Compare note on Nehemiah 2:13, &c. SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. HE SHALL... [ Continue Reading ]
FORT. the "strong hold" of 2 Samuel 5:7. Citadel. ROUND ABOUT. the wall, which was continued by Solomon (1 Kings 9:15; 1 Kings 9:24; 1 Kings 11:27), afterward by Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 32:5), and extended by Manasseh (2 Chronicles 33:14). MILLO. the Millo, or the filling up: i.e. of the valley bet... [ Continue Reading ]
WENT ON. went on and on. THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS. Jehovah _Elohim zebaioth._ App-4. See note on 1 Samuel 1:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIRAM. Not the Hiram of 1 Kings 9:11, which was sixty years later. Josephus says he was his father. Compare 2 Chronicles 2:13; 1 Kings 5:1. TYRE. Israel had no war with Phoenicians. Asher failed to expel them (Judges 1:31).... [ Continue Reading ]
OUT OF. Perhaps this should read "into", as in 1 Chronicles 14:3. But both accounts are independent and complementary.... [ Continue Reading ]
ELIADA. Another name, Beeliada. See note on 1 Chronicles 14:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
SEEK. Compare 1 Samuel 26:2. HOLD. Probably Adullam. 1 Samuel 22:1. Not Zion, because he went "down "to it.... [ Continue Reading ]
REPHAIM. The descendants of the Nephilim through one "Rapha". See App-23 and App-25. Compare 1 Chronicles 11:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ (App-4.). See note on Chron. 2 Samuel 14:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
BROKEN FORTH. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS. according as. GEBA. Abbreviation for "Gibeon". Compare Septuagint, and 1 Chronicles 14:16.... [ Continue Reading ]