2Ki 11:4-16 | TSK | STEP | A.M. 3126. B.C. 878. the seventh. rulers. the captains. made a covenant. took an oath.

king David's spears.Josephus states that, for fear of creating suspicion, they came unarmed, "and Jehoiada having opened the arsenal in the temple which David had prepared, he divided among the centurions, priests, and Levites, the spears (arrows), and quivers, and all other kinds of weapons which he found there."

1Sa 21:9; 2Sa 8:7; 1Ch 26:26,27; 2Ch 5:1; 23:9,10

every man.

8,10

corner. Heb. shoulder. by the altar.

Ex 40:6; 2Ch 6:12; Eze 8:16; Joe 2:17; Mt 23:35; Lu 11:51

he brought.

2,4; 2Ch 23:11

put the crown.

2Sa 1:10; 12:30; Es 2:17; 6:8; Ps 21:3; 89:39; 132:18; Mt 27:29

Heb 2:9; Re 19:12

the testimony.

Ex 25:16; 31:18; De 17:18-20; Ps 78:5; Isa 8:16,20

anointed him.

9:3; 1Sa 10:1; 16:13; 2Sa 2:4,7; 5:3; 1Ki 1:39; La 4:20; Ac 4:27

2Co 1:21; Heb 1:9

and they clapped.{Wyyakkoo kaph,} "they clapped the hand," which Mr. Harmer thinks was similar to the mode in which Oriental females express their respect for persons of high rank, by gently applying one of their hands to their mouth. So Pitts relates, that in some of the towns of Barbary, the leaders of the sacred caravan being received with loud acclamations, "the very women get upon the tops of the houses to view the parade, or fine show, where they keep striking their four fingers on their lips, as fast as they can, making a joyful noise all the while."

Ps 47:1; 98:8; Isa 55:12

and said.

1Ki 1:34; Ps 72:15-17; Da 3:9; 6:21; Mt 21:9

God save the king. Heb. Let the king live.

1Sa 10:24; 2Sa 16:16; *margins

2Ch 23:12-15

stood.The Orientals considered a seat by a pillar or column as particularly honourable.

a pillar.

23:3; 2Ch 34:31

the princes.

10,11

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