1Sa 4:12-18, 2Sa 18:19-31, 2Ch 30:6, Est 3:13-15, Jer 4:20, 50:24 | TSK | STEP | with his clothes rent.These, as we have already remarked, were the general signs of sorrow and distress. with earth.

All is well. or, Peace be to thee. Heb. Peace. he felldown 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

Is the young man Absalom safe? Heb. is there peace to, etc.I saw a great.

19,20,22

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 18:7,8Cushi 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.

2 Chronicles 30:6

the posts went.{Ratzim,} "runners," or couriers, of the same kind as the running footmen, who were formerly, before the establishment of posts, and still are in some places, trained, and kept on purpose to convey dispatches speedily by running.

Job 9:25; Es 8:14; Jer 51:31

the king. Heb. the hand of the king. turn again.

Isa 55:6,7; Jer 4:1; La 5:21; Eze 33:11; Ho 14:1; Joe 2:12-14

Jas 4:8

and he will.

Isa 6:13

escaped.

28:20; 2Ki 15:19,29; 1Ch 5:26; Isa 1:9