Geneva Study Bible Commentary
2 Samuel 3:5
And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife. These were born to David in (c) Hebron.
(c) Within seven years and six months.
And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife. These were born to David in (c) Hebron.
(c) Within seven years and six months.
4. ABNER'S DEEDS AND END CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The long war and its results (2 Samuel 3:1)_ 2. David's family (2 Samuel 3:2) 3. Abner's defiant deed (2 Samuel 3:6) 4. Abner and Ish-bosheth ...
An editorial note, including an account of David's family. It is curious that the last-named wife, Eglah, and she only, is expressly called David's wife. The letters in the Heb. may be a corruption of...
DAVID'S WIFE. Probably added, parenthetically, to indicate his _first_ wife...
_Eglah David's wife_ A Jewish tradition as old as the time of Jerome (_Quaest. Hebr. in libros Regum_) makes Eglah (_heifer_, cp. Judges 14:18) another name for _Michal_, who is supposed to be particu...
3. A Period of Two Kings in Israel, 2 Samuel 3:1-39. _David's Family._ 2 Samuel 3:1-5 Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, a...
_AND THE SIXTH, ITHREAM, BY EGLAH DAVID'S WIFE. THESE WERE BORN TO DAVID IN HEBRON._ Eglah, David's wife. This addition has led many to think that Eglah was another name for Michal, the first and pro...
ABNER IS TREACHEROUSLY MURDERED BY JOAB 3. Chileab] We read nothing more of him and he probably died as a child. In 1 Chronicles 3:1 he is called Daniel. GESHUR] a kingdom on the border of Bashan, whe...
DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL 2 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 3 V1 So Saul’s family opposed David. Their armies continued to fight for a long time. David’s side became more powerful. But the peo...
(2-5) AND UNTO DAVID. — The list of David’s sons born during his seven and a half years’ reign in Hebron rather interrupts the continuity of the narrative, but is quite in accordance with the habit of...
וְ הַ שִּׁשִּׁ֣י יִתְרְעָ֔ם לְ עֶגְלָ֖ה אֵ֣שׁ
CHAPTER IV. _ CONCLUSION OF THE CIVIL WAR_. 2 Samuel 3:1. THE victory at the pool of Gibeon was far from ending the opposition to David. In vain, for many a day, weary eyes looked out for the dove w...
A SPLIT IN THE ENEMY'S RANKS 2 Samuel 3:1 Abner's career reveals the principles on which ambitious men build their lives. He was, according to David's estimate, a great man and a prince, but his soul...
The long warfare continued, and the progress of it is declared in the opening verse of this chapter: "And David waxed stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker." At last mat...
_Wife. She was otherwise of no nobility, but perhaps loved by David more than the rest, as Rachel was by Jacob. The Rabbins would infer that Egla and Michol are the same person. But the latter had no...
(2) And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; (3) And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom t...
We have seen the sorrowful circumstances out of which arose the first desire to have a king in Israel, and the remarkable fact that, although it was a sin, God nevertheless did not put the people back...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 3 AND 4. Alas! the history of this period plunges us into the ways of man. It is no longer merely David walking in the path of faith. It is Joab, a clever, am...
AND THE SIXTH, ITHREAM, BY EGLAH DAVID'S WIFE,.... Who also is not spoken of in any other place; only, in a like chronological account as the former, it is remarked that the mother of this only is cal...
_And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron._ Ver. 5. Eglah David's wife.] His wife by a specialty: most dearly beloved. _a_ Some make her to be Michel, and her...
_By Eglah, David's wife_ This is added, either because she was of obscure parentage, and was known by no other title but her relation to David: or, because this was his first and most proper wife, bes...
1 During the warre Dauid still waxeth stronger. 2 Sixe sonnes were borne to him in Hebron. 6 Abner displeased with Ishbosheth, 12 reuolteth to Dauid. 13 Dauid requireth a condition to bring him hi...
and the sixth Ithream, by Eglah, David's wife. The three women mentioned last are otherwise unknown. THESE WERE BORN TO DAVID IN HEBRON, the fruit of his strange polygamous marriages....
ABNER LEAVES ISHBOSHETH FOR DAVID...
Though Saul had died, yet there continues long war between his house and the house of David. We have seen that Saul stands for the energy of the flesh, which does not easily give up though it is doome...
1-6 The length of this war tried the faith and patience of David, and made his settlement at last the more welcome. The contest between grace and corruption in the hearts of believers, may fitly be c...
DAVID'S WIFE: this is added, either because she was of obscure parentage, and was known by no other title but her relation to David; or to distinguish her from some other person of that name, who poss...
2 Samuel 3:5 sixth H8345 Ithream H3507 Davids H1732 wife H802 Eglah H5698 born H3205 (H8795) David H1732 Hebron...
DAVID MAKES HIMSELF STRONG IN HEBRON WHILE ABNER MAKES HIMSELF STRONG IN A WEAKENED HOUSE OF SAUL (2 SAMUEL 3:1). There would appear to have been constant antagonism between Judah and Israel from the...
CONTENTS: Abner deserts to David. Joab's murder of Abner. CHARACTERS: God, David, Joab, Abner, Ish-bosheth, Michal, Phaltiel, Rizpeh, Abishai, Asahel. CONCLUSION: Evil pursues sinners and will overt...
2 Samuel 3:1. _Long war,_ of contention and strife, rather than of bloody battles. 2 Samuel 3:3. _The daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur._ David had invaded the country of this prince, and might have...
_Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David._ PROGRESS AND TERMINATION OF THE CIVIL WAR What grief tales of distress are folded up in these brief words, “There was long w...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 3:2 It is assumed that CHILEAB (called Daniel in 1 Chronicles 3:1) died young, since he is not mentioned as a possible successor in...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 2 Samuel 3:1. “THE WAR.” “Not continual fighting, but the state of hostility in which they continued to stand towards one another.” _(Keil.)_ 2 Samuel 3:3. “CHILIAB.” C...
EXPOSITION 2 SAMUEL 3:1 THERE WAS LONG WAR. As Ishbosheth reigned only two years, and as "the house of Saul" is the phrase used, it seems probable that after Ishbosheth's murder, during the five year...
Now there was a long war [Verse, chapter three] between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David became stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul became weaker and weaker (2 Samuel 3:1)....
Eglah — This is added, either because she was of obscure parentage, and was known by no other title but her relation to David: or, because this was his first and most proper wife, best known by her ot...