2 Samuel 4 - Introduction
_BAANAH AND RECHAB SLAY ISH-BOSHETH, AND BRING HIS HEAD TO DAVID; DAVID ORDERS THEM TO BE SLAIN, AND THE HEAD OF ISH-BOSHETH TO BE BURIED._ _Before Christ 1048._... [ Continue Reading ]
_BAANAH AND RECHAB SLAY ISH-BOSHETH, AND BRING HIS HEAD TO DAVID; DAVID ORDERS THEM TO BE SLAIN, AND THE HEAD OF ISH-BOSHETH TO BE BURIED._ _Before Christ 1048._... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ALL THE ISRAELITES WERE TROUBLED— That is, all those who were united to the interest of Ish-bosheth.... [ Continue Reading ]
_2 SAMUEL 4:2_. (_FOR BEEROTH ALSO WAS RECKONED TO BENJAMIN_— Beeroth was a city formerly belonging to the Gibeonites, within the lot of Benjamin, but most certainly not inhabited by them, when the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, after the defeat of Gilboa; for Gittaim was a Benjamite city, and had tho... [ Continue Reading ]
JONATHAN—HAD A SON THAT WAS LAME— This account of Mephibosheth is properly inserted here; for, as the murderers of Ish-bosheth wished to destroy the whole house of Saul, in order to ingratiate themselves with David, the flight of Mephibotheth is designedly mentioned to inform the reader, that he was... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY CAME THITHER INTO THE MIDST OF THE HOUSE— Houbigant, following the version of the LXX, translates the whole thus: _the keeper of the house, while he was cleaning wheat in the midst of it, slept in the sun; therefore Rechab and Baanah his brother entered the house secretly, and whilst Ish-boshet... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW MUCH MORE WHEN WICKED MEN— It was a fine reflection which fell from Darius upon finding that Bessus was plotting against him: he told the traitor, that he was as well satisfied of Alexander's justice, as he was of his courage; that they were mistaken who hoped he would reward treachery; that, on... [ Continue Reading ]