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- 16450
- * with thee. Heb. before thee. thrust them.
- # 5 Jud 4:21 5:26,31 Ps 45:5 1Th 5:3
- * midst. Heb. heart.
- # Mt 12:40
- 16451
- # 15
- 16452
- * blew the trumpet.
- # 2:28 20:22 Nu 10:2-10 1Co 14:8
- 16453
- * laid.
- This was the ancient method of burying, whether heroes or
- traitors; the heap of stones being designed to perpetuate the
- memory of the event, whether good or bad. The Arabs in
- general make use of no other monument than a heap of stones
- over a grave. Thus, in an Arabic poem, it is related, that
- Hatim the father, and Adi the grandfather of Kais, having been
- murdered, at a time before Kais was capable of reflection, his
- mother kept it a profound secret; and in order to guard him
- against having any suspicion, she collected a parcel of stone
- on two hillocks in the neighbourhood, and told her son that
- the one was the grave of his father, and the other of his
- grandfather. The ancient cairns in Ireland and Scotland, and
- the tumuli in England, are of this kind.
-
- # Jos 7:26 8:29 10:27 Pr 10:7 Jer 22:18,19
- 16454
- * reared up.
- # 1Sa 15:12
- * the king's.
- # Ge 14:17
- * I have no son.
- # 14:27 Job 18:16,17 Ps 109:13 Jer 22:30
- * he called.
- # Ge 11:4 1Sa 15:12 Ps 49:11 Da 4:30
- * Absalom's place.
- Josephus says there was in his time, about two furlongs from
- Jerusalem, a marble pillar called Absalom's hand, as it is in
- the Hebrew, (See note on 1 Sa 15:12;) and there is one shown
- to the present day, in the valley of Jehoshaphat, which,
- though comparatively a modern structure, probably occupies the
- site of the original one set up by Absalom.
-
- # Ge 11:9 Ac 1:18,19
- 16455
- * Ahimaaz.
- # 23,27-29 15:36 17:17
- * avenged him. Heb. judged him from the hand, etc.
- # Ps 7:6,8,9 9:4,16 10:14,18 Ro 12:19
- 16456
- * bear tidings. Heb. be a man of tidings.
- # 17:16-21
- * because.
- # 5,27,29,33
- 16457
- # 21
- 16458
- * howsoever. Heb. be what may. ready. or, convenient.
- # Ro 1:28 Eph 5:4
- 16459
- * overran Cushi.
- # Joh 20:4
- 16460
- * between.
- # 4 1Sa 4:13
- * the watchman.
- # 2Ki 9:17-20 Isa 21:6-9,11,12 Eze 33:2-7
- 16461
- # 25
- 16462
- # 26
- 16463
- * Methinketh. Heb. I see.
- # 2Ki 9:20
- * He is a good.
- # 1Ki 1:42 Pr 25:13,25 Isa 52:7 Ro 10:15
- 16464
- * All is well. or, Peace be to thee. Heb. Peace. he fell
- down upon his face.
- This act was not only in reverence to the king, but in humble
- adoration of God, whose name he praises for this victory. The
- more our hearts are fixed and enlarged, in thanksgiving to God
- for our mercies, the better disposed we shall be to bear with
- patience the afflictions mixed with them.
-
- # 1:2 14:4
- * Blessed.
- # 22:27 Ge 14:20 24:27 2Ch 20:26 Ps 115:1 124:6 144:1,2
- # Re 19:1-3
- * delivered up. Heb. shut up.
- # 1Sa 24:18 26:8 Ps 31:8
- 16465
- * Is the young man Absalom safe? Heb. is there peace to, etc.
- I saw a great.
- # 19,20,22
- 16466
- # 30
- 16467
- * Tidings. Heb. Tidings is brought. the Lord.
- # 19,28 22:48,49 De 32:35,36 Ps 58:10 94:1-4 124:2,3 Lu 18:7,8
- Cushi was the man Joab ordered to carry the tidings to David.
- He was an Ethiopian, as his name signifies, and some think he
- was so by birth--a black, who waited on Joab, probably one of
- the ten who had helped to dispatch Absalom; though it was
- dangerous for one of those to bring the news to David, lest
- his fate should be the same with theirs that reported the
- death of Saul and Ishbosheth to him.
- 16468
- * The enemies.
- Thus Cushi obliquely and slowly informs David of the death of
- his son Absalom.
-
- # Jud 5:31 Ps 68:1,2 Da 4:19
- 16469
- * O my son.
- # 19:4
- * would God.
- # 12:10-23 Ps 103:13 Pr 10:1 17:25 Jas 5:17
- 16470
- 1 Joab causes the king to cease his mourning.
- 9 The Israelites are earnest to bring the king back.
- 11 David sends to the priests to incite them of Judah.
- 18 Shimei is pardoned;
- 24 Mephibosheth excused;
- 32 Barzillai dismissed, and Chimham his son taken into the
- king's family.
- 41 The Israelites expostulate with Judah for bringing home the
- king without them.
-
- # 18:5,12,14,20,33 Pr 17:25
- 16471
- * victory. Heb. salvation, or, deliverance. turned.
- # Pr 16:15 19:12
- 16472
- * into the city.
- # 32 17:24
- * steal.
- # Ge 31:27
- 16473
- * covered.
- # 15:30
- * O my son.
- It is allowed by competent critics that the lamentation of
- David over his son, of which this forms a part, is exceedingly
- pathetic; and Calmet properly remarks, that the frequent
- repetition of the name of the deceased is common in the
- language of lamentation.
-
- # 18:33
- 16474
- * Thou hast.
- Every one must admit that David's immoderate grief for his
- rebellious son was imprudent, and that Joab's firm and
- sensible reproof was necessary to arouse him to a sense of his
- duty to his people: but, in his manner, Joab far exceeded the
- bounds of that reverence which a servant owes to his master,
- or a subject to his prince.
-
- * saved.
- # Ne 9:27 Ps 3:8 18:47,48
- 16475
- * In that, etc. Heb. By loving, etc. thou regardest, etc.
- Heb. princes or servants are not to thee. then it had.
- # 3:24,25 Job 34:18 Pr 19:9,10 Ac 23:5
- 16476
- * comfortably unto thy. Heb. to the heart of thy.
- # Ge 34:3 Pr 19:15 Isa 40:1 Ho 2:14 *marg:
- * there.
- # Pr 14:28
- * all the evil.
- # Ps 71:4-6,9-11,18-20 129:1,2
- 16477
- * sat in the gate.
- How prudently and mildly David took the reproof and counsel
- given him! He shook off his grief, anointed his head, and
- washed his face, that he might not appear unto men to mourn,
- and then made his appearance at the gate of the city, which
- was the public place of resort for the hearing of causes and
- giving judgment, as well as a place to ratify special
- bargains. Thither the people flocked to congratulate him on
- his and their safety, and that all was well. When we are
- convinced of a fault, we must amend, though we are told of it
- by our inferiors in a way which is peculiarly painful to our
- natural feelings. This ancient custom still obtains in the
- East; for when Dr. Pococke returned from viewing the town of
- ancient Byblus, he says, "The sheik and the elders were
- sitting in the gate of the city, after the ancient manner, and
- I sat awhile with them."
-
- # 18:4,24
- * for Israel.
- # 3 18:6-8 1Ki 22:36 2Ki 14:12
- 16478
- * strife.
- # Ge 3:12,13 Ex 32:24 Jas 3:14-16
- * The king.
- # 8:10 1Sa 17:50 18:5-7,25 19:5
- * he is fled.
- # 15:14
- 16479
- * whom.
- # 15:12,13 Ho 8:4
- * is dead.
- # 18:14
- * speak ye not a word. Heb. are ye silent?
- # Jud 18:9
- 16480
- * sent.
- # 15:29,35,36 1Ki 2:25,26,35
- * Speak.
- # 2Co 5:20
- * Why are.
- # Mt 5:16 2Th 3:9
- 16481
- * my bones.
- # 5:1 Ge 2:23 Jud 9:2 Eph 5:30
- 16482
- * Amasa.
- # 17:25 1Ch 2:16,17 12:18
- * God.
- # Ru 1:17 1Ki 19:2
- * room of Joab.
- # 5-7 3:29,30 8:16 18:11
- 16483
- * he bowed.
- The measures that he pursued were the best calculated that
- could be adopted for accomplishing this salutary end. David
- appears to take no notice of their infidelity, but rather to
- place confidence in them, that their confidence in him might
- be naturally excited; and to oblige them yet farther, purposes
- to make Amasa general of the army, instead of Joab.
-
- * even.
- # Jud 20:1 Ps 110:2,3 Ac 4:32
- 16484
- * Gilgal.
- # Jos 5:9 1Sa 11:14,15
- 16485
- * Shimei.
- It appears that Shimei was a powerful chieftain in the land;
- for he had here in his retinue no less than a thousand men.
-
- # 16:5-13 1Ki 2:8,36-46
- * hasted.
- # Job 2:4 Pr 6:4,5 Mt 5:25
- 16486
- * Ziba.
- # 26,27 9:2,10 16:1-4
- 16487
- * And there.
- The LXX. connecting this the with preceding verse, render,
- [kai kateuthynan ton lordanen emposthen tou basileos, kai
- eleitourgesan ten leitourgian tou diabibasai ton basilea,]
- "and they made ready Jordan before the king, and did the
- necessary service to bring over the king;" and the Vulgate
- has, {et irrumpentes Jordanem, ante regem transierunt vada, ut
- traducerent domum regis,} "and breaking into Jordan, they
- passed the fords before the king, to bring over the king's
- household." Josephus says they prepared a bridge over the
- Jordan, to facilitate his passage.
-
- * what he thought good. Heb. the good in his eyes. fell down.
- # Ps 66:3 81:15 Re 3:9
- 16488
- * And said.
- # Ec 10:4
- * Let not.
- # 1Sa 22:15 Ps 32:2 Ro 4:6-8 2Co 5:19
- * remember.
- # Ps 79:8 Isa 43:25 Jer 31:34
- * did perversely.
- # 16:5-9,10-14 Ex 10:16,17 1Sa 26:21 Mt 27:4
- * take it.
- # 13:20,33 1Sa 25:25
- 16489
- * I am come.
- # Ps 78:34-37 Jer 22:23 Ho 5:15
- * Joseph.
- # 9 16:5 Ge 48:14,20 1Ki 12:20,25 Ho 4:15-17 5:3
- 16490
- * Shall not.
- # Ex 22:28 1Ki 21:10,11
- * cursed.
- # 16:5,7,13 1Sa 24:6 26:9
- 16491
- * What have.
- # 3:39 16:10 1Sa 26:8 Mt 8:29
- * shall there any man.
- # 1Sa 11:13 Isa 16:5 Lu 9:54-56
- 16492
- * Thou shalt.
- # 1Ki 2:8,9,37,46
- * sware.
- # 1Sa 28:10 30:15 Heb 6:16
- 16493
- * Mephibosheth.
- # 9:6 16:3
- * dressed his feet.
- Literally, made his feet, which seems to mean washing the feet
- paring the nails, and perhaps anointing or otherwise perfuming
- them, if not tinging the nails with henna; see Note on De
- 21:12. Sir John Chardin, in his MS. note on this place,
- informs us, that it is customary in the East to have as much
- care of the feet as the hands; and that their barbers cut and
- adjust the nails with a proper instrument, because they often
- go barefoot. The nails of the toes of the mummies inspected
- in London in 1763, of which an account is given in the
- Philosophical Transactions for 1764, seem to have been tinged
- with some reddish colour.
-
- # 15:30 Isa 15:2 Jer 41:5 Mt 6:16 Ro 12:15 Heb 13:3
- * trimmed.
- Literally, made his beard, which may mean, combing, curling,
- and perfuming it. But Mr. Morier says that they almost
- universally dye the beard black, by successive layers of a
- paste made of henna, and another made of the leaf of the
- indigo: the first tinging with an orange colour, and the next
- with a dark bottle green, which becomes jet black when exposed
- to the air for twenty-four hours.
- 16494
- * Wherefore.
- # 16:17
- 16495
- * I will saddle.
- # 16:2,3
- * thy servant.
- # 4:4
- 16496
- * slandered.
- # 16:3 Ex 20:16 Ps 15:3 101:5 Jer 9:4
- * as an angel.
- # 14:17,20 1Sa 29:9
- 16497
- * were.
- # Ge 32:10
- * dead men. Heb. men of death.
- # 1Sa 26:16
- * didst thou.
- # 9:7,8,10,13
- * to cry.
- # 2Ki 8:3
- 16498
- * Why speakest.
- # Job 19:16,17 Pr 18:13 Ac 18:15
- * Thou.
- # De 19:17-19 Ps 82:2 101:5
- 16499
- * Yea.
- # 1:26 Ac 20:24 Php 1:20
-