1Sa 24:6, 26:9, 2Sa 16:5, 7, 13 | TSK | STEP

1 Samuel 24:6

the Lord forbid.

26:9-11; 2Sa 1:14; 1Ki 21:3; Job 31:29,30; Mt 5:44; Ro 12:14-21

1 Samuel 26:9

who can stretch.

2 Samuel 16:5

Bahurim.This place is supposed to be the same as Almon, (Jos 21:18,) and Almeth, (1 Ch 6:60,) a city of Benjamin, north of Jerusalem, and apparently not far from Olivet.

14; 3:16; 17:18

whose name.

19:16-18; 1Ki 2:8,9,36-44,45,46

he came, etc. or, he still came forth and cursed. cursed.

Ex 22:28; 1Sa 17:43; Ps 69:26; 109:16-19,28; Pr 26:2; Ec 10:20

Isa 8:21; Mt 5:11,12

2 Samuel 16:7

bloody man. Heb. man of blood.

3:37; 11:15-17; 12:9; Ps 5:6; 51:14

man of Belial.

De 13:13; 1Sa 2:12; 25:17; 1Ki 21:10,13

2 Samuel 16:13

cursed.

5,6

cast dust. Heb. dusted him with dust.

Ac 23:23It was an ancient custom, in those warm and arid countries, to lay the dust before a person of distinction, by sprinkling the ground with water. Dr. Pococke and the consul were treated with this respect when they entered Cairo. The same custom is alluded to in the well-known fable of Phædrus, in which a slave is represented going before Augustus and officiously laying the dust. To throw dust in the air while a person was passing was therefore an act of great disrespect; to do so before a sovereign prince, an indecent outrage. But it is probable that Shimei meant more than disrespect and outrage to this afflicted king. Sir John Chardin informs us, that in the East, in general, those who demand justice against a criminal throw dust upon him, signifying that he ought to be put in the grave: and hence the common imprecation among the Turks and Persians, "Be covered with earth," or, "Earth be upon thy head."