1 Samuel 4:13-14
sat upon.1:9his heart.Jos 7:9; Ne 1:3,4; Ps 26:8; 79:1-8; 137:4-6 What meaneth.61 Samuel 4:16
What is there done. Heb. What is the thing.2Sa 1:4my son.3:6; Jos 7:192 Samuel 1:3-4
From.2Ki 5:25am I.Job 1:15-19 How went. Heb. What was, etc.1Sa 4:16; *marg:the people.1Sa 31:1-6; 1Ch 10:1-62 Samuel 18:24-32
between.4; 1Sa 4:13the watchman.2Ki 9:17-20; Isa 21:6-9,11,12; Eze 33:2-7 25 26 Methinketh. Heb. I see.2Ki 9:20He is a good.1Ki 1:42; Pr 25:13,25; Isa 52:7; Ro 10:15 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; 14:4Blessed.22:27; Ge 14:20; 24:27; 2Ch 20:26; Ps 115:1; 124:6; 144:1,2Re 19:1-3delivered 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 30 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. 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
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