2Sa 1 | TSK | STEP | The Second Book of SAMUEL, otherwise called The Second Book of Kings. The Amalekite, who brought tidings of the overthrow, and accused himself of Saul's death, is slain. David laments Saul and Jonathan with a song. when David. Ziklag.

As I happened.The story of this young man appears to be wholly a fiction, formed for the purpose of ingratiating himself with David, as the next probable successor to the crown. There is no fact in the case, except for the bringing of the diadem and bracelets of Saul, as a sufficient evidence of his death, which, as he appears to been a plunderer of the slain, he seems to have stripped from the dead body of the unfortunate monarch. It is remarkable, that Saul, who had forfeited his crown by his disobedience and ill-timed clemency with respect to the Amalekites, should now have the insignia of royalty stripped from his person by one of those very people.

Ru 2:3; 1Sa 6:9; Lu 10:31

mount.

21; 1Sa 28:4; 31:1

Saul.

1Sa 31:2-7

Here am I. Heb. Behold me.

9:6; Jud 9:54; 1Sa 22:12; Isa 6:8; *marg:

Isa 65:1

an Amalekite.

Ge 14:7; Ex 17:8-16; Nu 24:20; De 25:17-19; 1Sa 15:3; 27:8

1Sa 30:1,13,17

anguish, etc. or, my coat of mail, or, my embroidered coathindereth me, that my, etc.

slew.

Jud 1:7; 9:54; 1Sa 22:18; 31:4,5; Mt 7:2

crown.

12:30; La 5:16

bracelet.This was probably worn as an ensign of royalty, as is frequently the case in the East. When the Khalif Cayem Bemrillah granted the investiture of certain dominions to an Eastern prince, the ceremony was performed by sending him letters patent, a crown, chain, and bracelets. The bracelet, says Mr. Morier, are ornaments fastened above the elbows, composed of precious stones of great value, and are only worn by the king and his sons.

rent.

3:31; 13:31; Ge 37:29,34; Ac 14:14

likewise.

Ro 12:15

Ps 35:13,14; Pr 24:17; Jer 9:1; Am 6:6; Mt 5:44; 2Co 11:29; 1Pe 3:8

How.

Nu 12:8; 1Sa 31:4; 2Pe 2:10

stretch forth.

1Sa 24:6; 26:9; Ps 105:15

Go near.

4:10-12; Jud 8:20; 1Sa 22:17,18; 1Ki 2:25,34,46; Job 5:12

Pr 11:18

Thy blood.

Ge 9:5,6; Le 20:9,11-13,16,27; De 19:10; Jos 2:19; Jud 9:24

1Sa 26:9; 1Ki 2:32,33,37; Eze 18:13; 33:5; Mt 27:25; Ac 20:26

mouth.

10; Job 15:6; Pr 6:2; Lu 19:22; Ro 3:19

lamented.

19; Ge 50:11; 2Ch 35:25; Jer 9:17-21

teach.

Ge 49:8; De 4:10

bow.{Kasheth,} or the bow, was probably the title of the following threnody; so called, in the oriental style, because Saul's death was occasioned by that weapon, and because the bow of Jonathan, out of which "the arrow was shot beyond the lad," (1 Sa 20:36,) is celebrated in this song.

the book.

Jos 10:13

Jasher. or, the upright.So LXX. [ ;] Targum, {siphra deooritha,} "the book of the law;" the Arabic, "the book of Ashee: this is the book of Samuel." This book was probably a collection of divine odes, written to commemorate remarkable events.

beauty.

23; De 4:7,8; 1Sa 31:8; Isa 4:2; 53:2; La 2:1; Zec 11:7,10

how are.

25,27; La 5:16

Tell.

De 32:26,27; Jud 14:19; 16:23,24; 1Sa 31:9; Mic 1:10

Philistines.

Ex 15:20,21; Jud 11:34; 1Sa 18:6; Eze 16:27,57

uncircumcised.

1Sa 17:26,36; 31:4,9

mountains.

1Sa 31:1; 1Ch 10:1,8

no dew.

Jud 5:23; Job 3:3-10; Isa 5:6; Jer 20:14-16

offerings.

Joe 1:9; 2:14

not.Instead of {belee,} "not," we should probably, with Dr. Delaney and others, read {keley,} "weapons," as it is found on one MS. and in the first edition of the Hebrew Bible, printed at Soncini, 1488: "the shield of Saul; the weapons of the anointed with oil."

anointed.

1Sa 10:1; Isa 21:5

the bow.

1Sa 14:6-14; 18:4; Isa 34:6,7

pleasant. or, sweet.

1Sa 18:1; 20:2

they were.

1Sa 31:1-5

swifter.

2:18; De 28:49; 1Ch 12:8; Job 9:26; Jer 4:13; La 4:19

stronger.

23:20; Jud 14:18; Pr 30:30