2Sa 13:20-28, 14:24-15:18, 17:1-14, 18:9-18, 33 | TSK | STEP | Amnon. Heb. Aminon. but hold. regard not. Heb. set not thine heart on. desolate. Heb.and desolate.

2 Samuel 13:20-28

Amnon. Heb. Aminon. but hold.

regard not. Heb. set not thine heart on. desolate. Heb.and desolate.

he was very wroth.The Septuagint and Vulgate add, [Kai ouk elupese to pneuma Amnon tou huiou autou, hoti egapa auton, hoti prototokos autou en;] et noluit contristare spiritum Amnon filii sui, quoniam diligebat eum, quia primogenitus erat ei: "But he would not grieve the soul of Amnon his son, for he loved him because he was his first-born." The same addition is found in Josephus; and it is probable that it once formed a part of the Hebrew text.

3:28,29; 12:5,10; Ge 34:7; 1Sa 2:22-25,29; Ps 101:8

spake.

Le 19:17,18; Pr 25:9; Mt 18:15

neither good.

Ge 24:50; 31:24,29

hated.

Le 19:17,18; Pr 10:18; 26:24; 27:4-6; Ec 7:9; Eph 4:26,31; 1Jo 3:15

A.M. 2974. B.C. 1030. An. Ex. Is 461. sheep-shearers.

Ge 38:12,13; 1Sa 25:2,4,36; 2Ki 3:4; 2Ch 26:10

invited.

1Ki 1:9,19,25

let the king.

11:8-15; Ps 12:2; 55:21; Jer 41:6,7

pressed.

Ge 19:2,3; Jud 19:7-10; Lu 14:23; 24:29; Ac 16:15

blessed.

14:22; *marg:

Ru 2:4

let my brother.He urged this with the more plausibility because Amnon was the first-born, and presumptive heir to the crown; and he had dissembled his resentment so long and so well that he was not suspected.

3:27; 11:13-15; 20:9; Ps 55:21

Absalom.

Pr 26:24-26

commanded.

11:15; Ex 1:16,17; 1Sa 22:17,18; Ac 5:29

heart is merry.

11:13; Ge 9:21; 19:32-35; Jud 19:6,9,22; Ru 3:7; 1Sa 25:36-38

1Ki 20:16; Es 1:10; Ps 104:15; Ec 9:7; 10:19; Da 5:2-6,30; Na 1:10

Lu 21:34

fear not.

Nu 22:16,17; 1Sa 28:10,13

have not I. or, Will you not, since I have, etc.

Jos 1:9

valiant. Heb. sons of valour.

2 Samuel 14:24-33

let him not.

28; 3:13; Ge 43:3; Ex 10:28; Re 22:4

But in all Israel, etc. Heb. And as Absalom there was not abeautiful man in all Israel to praise greatly.

1Sa 9:2; 16:7; Pr 31:30; Mt 23:27

from the sole.

De 28:35; Job 2:7; Isa 1:6; Eph 5:27

when he polled.

18:9; Isa 3:24; 1Co 11:14

two hundred shekels.If the shekel be allowed to mean the common shekel, the amount will be utterly incredible; for Josephus says that "two hundred shekels make five {minæ:}" and the {mina,} he says, "weighs two pounds and a half;" which calculation makes Absalom's hair weigh twelve pounds and a half! But it is probable that the king's shekel was that which Epiphanius and Hesychius say was the fourth part of an ounce, half a {stater,} or two drachms: the whole amount, therefore, of the 200 shekels is about 50 ounces, which make 4 lb. 2 oz. troy weight, or 3 lb. 2 oz. avoirdupois. This need not be accounted incredible, especially as abundance of oil and ointment was used by the ancients in dressing their heads. Josephus informs us, that the Jews also put gold dust in their hair.

Ge 23:16; Le 19:36; Eze 45:9-14

born.

18:18; Job 18:16-19; Isa 14:22; Jer 22:30

Tamar.

13:1

A.M. 2977-2979. B.C. 1027-1025. An. Ex. Is. 464-466. andsaw not.

but he would.

30,31; Es 1:12; Mt 22:3

near mine. Heb. near my place. go and set.

13:28,29; Jud 15:4,5

And Absalom's.

1Ki 21:9-14; 2Ki 9:33; 10:6,7

it had been.

Ex 14:12; 16:3; 17:3

if there.

Ge 3:12; 1Sa 15:13; Ps 36:2; Pr 28:13; Jer 2:22,23; 8:12; Mt 25:44

Ro 3:19

A.M. 2979. B.C. 1025. An. Ex. Is. 466. kissed Absalom.

Ge 27:26; 33:4; 45:15; Lu 15:20

2 Samuel 15:1-18

1 Absalom, by fair speeches and courtesies, steals the hearts of Israel.

7 Under pretence of a vow, he obtains leave to go to Hebron.

10 He makes there a great conspiracy.

13 David upon the news flees from Jerusalem.

19 Ittai will not leave him.

24 Zadok and Abiathar are sent back with the ark.

30 David and his company go up mount Olivet weeping.

31 He curses Ahithophel's counsel.

32 Hushai is sent back with instructions.

A.M. 2980. B.C. 1024. Absalom.

12:11; De 17:16; 1Sa 8:11; 1Ki 1:5,33; 10:26-29; Ps 20:7; Pr 11:2

Pr 16:18; 17:19; Jer 22:14-16

rose up.

Job 24:14; Pr 4:16; Mt 27:1

came. Heb. to come.

Ex 18:14,16,26; 1Ki 3:16-28

thy matters.

Nu 16:3,13,14; Ps 12:2; Da 11:21; 2Pe 2:10

there is, etc. or, none will hear thee from the kingdownward.

8:15; Ex 20:12; 21:17; Pr 30:11,17; Eze 22:7; Mt 15:4; Ac 23:5

1Pe 2:17

Oh that I.

Jud 9:1-5,29; Pr 25:6; Lu 14:8-11

I would do.

Pr 27:2; 2Pe 2:19

took him.

Ps 10:9,10; 55:21; Pr 26:25

and kissed.

14:33

stole.

Pr 11:9; Ro 16:18; 2Pe 2:3

A.M. 2983. B.C. 1021. An. Ex. Is. 470. forty years.As David reigned in the whole only forty years, this reading is evidently corrupt, though supported by the commonly printed Vulgate, LXX., and Chaldee. But the Syriac, Arabic, Josephus, Theodoret, the Sixtine edition of the Vulgate, and several MSS. of the same version, read four years; and it is highly probable that {arbâim,} forty, is an error for {arbâ,} four, though not supported by any Hebrew MS. yet discovered. Two of those collated by Dr. Kennicott, however, have {yom,} "day," instead of {shanah,} "year," i.e., forty days instead of forty years; but this is not sufficient to outweigh the other authorities.

13:38; 1Sa 16:1,13

let me go.

13:24-27

pay.

1Sa 16:2; Pr 21:27; Isa 58:4; Mt 2:8; 23:14

thy servant.

Ge 28:20,21; 1Sa 1:11; 16:2; Ps 56:12; Ec 5:4

Geshur.

13:37,38; 14:23,32

I will serve.

Jos 24:15; Isa 28:15; Jer 9:3-5; 42:20

spies.

13:28; 14:30

reigneth.

19:10; Job 20:5-29; Ps 73:18,19

Hebron.

2:1,11; 3:2,3; 5:5; 1Ch 11:3; 12:23,38

called.

1Sa 9:13; 16:3-5

their simplicity.

Ge 20:5; 1Sa 22:15; Pr 14:15; 22:3; Mt 10:16; Ro 16:18,19

Ahithophel.

31; 16:20-23; 17:14,23

David's.

Ps 41:9; 55:12-14; Mic 7:5,6; Joh 13:18

Giloh.

Jos 15:51

while he offered.

Nu 23:1,14,30; 1Ki 21:9,12; Ps 50:16-21; Pr 21:27; Isa 1:10-16

Tit 1:16

the people.

Ps 3:1,2; 43:1,2

The hearts.

6; 3:36; Jud 9:3; Ps 62:9; Mt 21:9; 27:22

Arise.

19:9; Ps 3:1; *title

bring. Heb. thrust.

Eze 46:18; Mt 11:12; *marg:

Lu 10:15

and smite.

23:16,17; Ps 51:18; 55:3-11; 137:5,6

Behold.

Pr 18:24; Lu 22:28,29; Joh 6:66-69; 15:14

appoint. Heb. choose.

the king.

Ps 3:1; *title

after him. Heb. at his feet.

Jud 4:10; 1Sa 25:27,42; *marg:

ten women.

12:11; 16:21,22; 20:3; Ro 12:2

went forth.

Ps 3:1; *title

Ps 3:2; 66:12; Ec 10:7

Cherethites.

8:18; 20:7,23; 1Sa 30:14; 1Ki 1:38; 1Ch 18:17

Gittites.

19-22; 6:10; 18:2; 1Sa 27:3

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

2 Samuel 18:9-18

his head.Riding furiously under the thick boughs of a great oak, which hung low and had never been cropped, either the twisted branches, or some low forked bough of the tree, caught him by the neck, or, as some think, by the loops into which his long hair had been pinned, which had been so much his pride, and was now justly made a halter for him. He may have hung so low from the bough, in consequence of the length of his hair, that he could not use his hands to help himself, or so entangled that his hands were bound, so that the more he struggled the more he was embarrassed. This set him up as a fair mark to the servants of David; and although David would have spared his rebellious son, if his orders had been executed, yet he could not turn the sword of Divine justice, in executing the just, righteous sentence of death on this traitorous son.

14; 14:26; 17:23; Mt 27:5

taken up.

De 21:23; 27:16,20; Job 18:8-10; 31:3; Ps 63:9,10; Pr 20:20; 30:17

Jer 48:44; Mr 7:10; Ga 3:13

receive, etc. Heb. weigh upon mine hand. in our hearing.

Beware, etc. Heb. Beware, whosoever ye be, of the, etc.

wrought.

1:15,16; 4:10-12

for there is no.

14:19,20; Heb 4:13

with thee. Heb. before thee. thrust them.

5; Jud 4:21; 5:26,31; Ps 45:5; 1Th 5:3

midst. Heb. heart.

Mt 12:40

blew the trumpet.

2:28; 20:22; Nu 10:2-10; 1Co 14:8

laid.This was the ancient method of burying, whether heroes or traitors; the heap of stones being designed to perpetuate the memory of the event, whether good or bad. The Arabs in general make use of no other monument than a heap of stones over a grave. Thus, in an Arabic poem, it is related, that Hatim the father, and Adi the grandfather of Kais, having been murdered, at a time before Kais was capable of reflection, his mother kept it a profound secret; and in order to guard him against having any suspicion, she collected a parcel of stone on two hillocks in the neighbourhood, and told her son that the one was the grave of his father, and the other of his grandfather. The ancient cairns in Ireland and Scotland, and the tumuli in England, are of this kind.

Jos 7:26; 8:29; 10:27; Pr 10:7; Jer 22:18,19

reared up.

1Sa 15:12

the king's.

Ge 14:17

I have no son.

14:27; Job 18:16,17; Ps 109:13; Jer 22:30

he called.

Ge 11:4; 1Sa 15:12; Ps 49:11; Da 4:30

Absalom'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

2 Samuel 18:33

O my son.

19:4

would God.

12:10-23; Ps 103:13; Pr 10:1; 17:25; Jas 5:17