2Sa 10:6-19, 16:5-14, 17:1-14, Psa 144:7-8 | TSK | STEP | stank. Syrians of Beth-rehob. Zobah. Maacah. Ish-tob. or, the men of Tob.

Be of good.This is a very animating address, and equal to any thing of the kind in ancient or modern times. Ye fight {pro aris et focis;} for every good, sacred and civil; for God, for your families, and for your countries. Such harangues, especially in very trying circumstances, are very natural, and may perhaps be found in the records of every nation. Several instances might be quoted from Roman and Grecian history; but few are more remarkable than that of Tyrtaeus, the lame Athenian poet, to whom the command of the army was given in one of the Messenian wars. The Spartans had at that time suffered great losses, and all their stratagems proved ineffectual, so that they began to despair of success; when the poet, by his lectures on honour and courage, delivered in moving verse to the army, ravished them to such a degree with the thoughts of dying for their country, that, rushing on with a furious transport to meet their enemies, they gave them an entire overthrow, and by one decisive battle brought the war to a happy conclusion.

Nu 13:20; De 31:6; Jos 1:6,7,9,18; 1Sa 14:6,12; 17:32; 2Ch 32:7

Ne 4:14; Heb 13:6

play.

1Sa 4:9; 1Ch 19:13; 1Co 16:13

the Lord.

16:10,11; Jud 10:15; 1Sa 3:18; Job 1:21

they fled.

1Ki 20:13-21,28-30; 1Ch 19:14,15; 2Ch 13:5-16

A.M. 2968. B.C. 1036. An. Ex. Is. 455. gathered.

Ps 2:1; Isa 8:9,10; Mic 4:11,12; Zec 14:2,3; Re 19:19-21

Hadarezer.

8:3-8; 1Ch 18:3,5

the river. i.e., Euphrates. Shobach. or, Shophach.

he gathered.

fled.

horsemen.

footmen. Shobach.

servants.

Ge 14:1-5; Jos 11:10; Jud 1:7; 1Ki 20:1; Da 2:37

feared.

8:6; 1Ch 19:19; Ps 18:37,38; 48:4,5; Isa 26:11; Re 18:10

2 Samuel 16:5-14

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

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

returned.

Jud 9:24,56,57; 1Ki 2:32,33; Ac 28:4,5; Re 16:6

the blood.

1:16; 3:28,29; 4:8-12; Ps 3:2; 4:2

thou, etc. or, thee in thy evil.

Abishai.

3:30; 1Sa 26:6-8

dead dog.

3:8; 9:8; 1Sa 24:14

curse.

Ex 22:28; Ac 23:5; 1Pe 2:17

let me go.

1Sa 26:6-11; Job 31:30,31; Jer 40:13-16

What have.

3:39; 19:22; 1Ki 2:5; Mt 16:23; Lu 9:54-56; 1Pe 2:23

so let him.

Ge 50:20; 1Ki 22:21-23; 2Ki 18:25; La 3:38,39; Joh 18:11

Who shall.

Job 9:12; Ec 8:4; Da 4:35; Ro 9:20

Behold.

12:11,12

came forth.

7:2; Ge 15:4

seeketh.

17:1-4; 2Ki 19:37; 2Ch 32:21; Mt 10:21

the Lord.

Isa 10:5-7; Eze 14:9; 20:25

the Lord.

Ge 29:32,33; Ex 2:24,25; 3:7,8; 1Sa 1:11; Ps 25:18

affliction. or, tears. Heb. eye. requite.

De 23:5; Isa 27:7; Mt 5:11,12; Ro 8:28; 2Co 4:17; 2Th 1:7

Heb 12:10; 1Pe 4:12-19

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."

there.

2 Samuel 17:1-14

1 Ahithophel's counsel is overthrown by Hushai's, according to God's appointment.

15 Secret intelligence is sent unto David.

23 Ahithophel hangs himself.

25 Amasa is made captain.

27 David at Mahanaim is furnished with provisions.

I will arise.

Pr 1:16; 4:16; Isa 59:7,8

this night.

Ps 3:3-5; 4:8; 109:2-4

weary.

16:14; De 25:18

I will smite.

1Ki 22:31; Zec 13:7; Mt 21:38; 26:31; Joh 11:50; 18:4-8

I will bring.

3:21

shall be.

Isa 48:22; 57:21; 1Th 5:3

the saying.

1Sa 18:20,21; 23:21; Es 5:14; Ro 1:32

pleased Absalom well. Heb. was right in the eyes of Absalom.

2Ch 30:4; Es 1:21

Hushai.

15:32-37; 16:16-19

he saith. Heb. is in his mouth.

saying. Heb. word.

given. Heb. counselled. not good.

Pr 31:8

mighty men.

15:18; 21:18-22; 23:8,9,16,18,20-22; 1Sa 16:18; 17:34-36,50

1Ch 11:25-47; Heb 11:32-34

chafed in their minds. Heb. bitter of soul.

Jud 18:25

as a bear.

2Ki 2:24; Pr 17:12; 28:15; Da 7:5; Ho 13:8

thy father is.

1Sa 23:23

he is hid.

Jud 20:33; 1Sa 22:1; 24:3

some.

Jos 7:5; 8:6; Jud 20:32; 1Sa 14:14,15

over thrown. Heb. fallen.

heart.

1:23; 23:20; Ge 49:9; Nu 24:8,9; Pr 28:1

utterly melt.

Ex 15:15; De 1:28; Jos 2:9-11; Isa 13:7; 19:1

thy father.

1Sa 18:17; Heb 11:34

and they which.

So 3:7

all Israel.

24:2; Jud 20:1

as the sand.

Ge 13:16; 22:17; Jos 11:4; 1Ki 4:20; 20:10

thou go. Heb. they face, or presence, go, etc. in thine.

12:28; Ps 7:15,16; 9:16

in some place.

1Sa 23:23

we will light.This is a very beautiful and expressive figure. The dew in Palestine, and other warm climates, falls fast, sudden, and heavy; and it falls upon every spot of earth, so that not a blade of grass escapes it. It is therefore no inapt emblem of a numerous and active army; and it was, perhaps, for this reason that the Romans called their light armed forces {rorarii.}

1Ki 20:10; 2Ki 18:23; 19:24; Isa 10:13,14; Ob 1:3

bring ropes.In the same manner the king of Maturan, in Java, proposed pulling down a tower which the Dutch had built, by making his people and elephants pull at a number of chains, and ropes of cocoa-nut bark, thrown around it.

one small.

Mt 24:2

the Lord.

15:31; Ge 32:28; Ex 9:16; De 2:30; 2Ch 25:16,20

appointed. Heb. commanded.

Ps 33:9,10; La 3:37; Am 9:3

to defeat.

15:34; 16:23; Job 5:12-14; Pr 19:21; 21:30; Isa 8:10; 1Co 1:19,20

1Co 3:19

good counsel.

Lu 16:8