2 Samuel 15:10
spies.13:28; 14:30reigneth.19:10; Job 20:5-29; Ps 73:18,19Hebron.2:1,11; 3:2,3; 5:5; 1Ch 11:3; 12:23,382 Kings 9:13
and took every.The spreading of garments in the street, before persons to whom it was intended to shew particular honour, was an ancient and very general custom; the garments in these cases being used for carpets. In the Agamemnon of Æschylus, the hypocritical Clytemnestra commands the maids to spread carpets before her returning husband, that on his descending from his chariot he may place his foot on "a purple-covered path." We also find this custom among the Romans. Plutarch relates, that when Cato of Utica left the Macedonian army, where he had become legionary tribune, the soldiers spread their clothes in the way. Mt 21:7,8; Mr 11:7,8on the top.The ancient fortified cities were generally strengthened with a citadel, (Jud 9:46, 51,) commonly built on an eminence, to which they ascended by a flight of stairs, (Ne 3:15.) It is extremely probable, therefore, that Ramoth-gilead, being a frontier town of Israel and Syria, had a tower of this nature; and that Jehu was proclaimed king on the top of the stairs by which they ascended the hill on which the tower stood, i.e., in the area before the door of the tower, and consequently the most public place in the city. blew with trumpets.2Sa 15:10; 1Ki 1:34,39; Ps 47:5-7; 98:6is king. Heb. reigneth.2 Kings 11:14
stood.The Orientals considered a seat by a pillar or column as particularly honourable. a pillar.23:3; 2Ch 34:31the princes.10,11See onNu 10:1-10all the people.1Ki 1:39,40; 1Ch 12:40; Pr 29:2; Lu 19:37; Re 19:1-7Treason.1,2; 9:23; 1Ki 18:17,18Psalms 98:5-7
33:2; 92:3,4; 1Ch 15:16; 25:1-6; 2Ch 29:25; Re 5:8; 14:2,3 trumpets.47:5; 81:2-4; Nu 10:1-10; 1Ch 15:28; 2Ch 5:12,13; 29:27the king.47:6,7; Mt 25:34; Re 19:16 Let.96:11-99:9world.97:1; Isa 49:13; 61:11
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