Genesis 4:17
Enoch.5:18,22and he.11:4; Ec 2:4-11; Da 4:30; Lu 17:28,29the name.2Sa 18:18; Ps 49:111 Samuel 15:12
Carmel.25:2; Jos 15:55; 1Ki 18:42he set him.7:12; Jos 4:8,9; 2Sa 18:18a place. Yad.Literally as the LXX. render [cheira,] a hand; probably because the trophy or monument of victory was in the shape of a large hand, the emblem of power, erected on a pillar. These memorial pillars were anciently much in use; and the figure of a hand, by its emblematical meaning, was well adapted to preserve the remembrance of a victory. Niebuhr, speaking of the Mesjed Ali, or Mosque of Ali, says that, "at the top of the dome, where one generally sees on the Turkish mosques a crescent, or only a pole, there is here a hand stretched out, to represent that of Ali." Another writer informs us, that at the Alhamra, or red palace of the Moorish kings in Grenada, "on the key-stone of the outward arch [of the present principal entrance] is sculptured the figure of an arm, the symbol of strength and dominion."2 Samuel 18:18
reared up.1Sa 15:12the king's.Ge 14:17I have no son.14:27; Job 18:16,17; Ps 109:13; Jer 22:30he called.Ge 11:4; 1Sa 15:12; Ps 49:11; Da 4:30Absalom'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
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