2Sa 15:2-7, 16:16-19, 17:7-13, 1Ki 22:6, 13, Jer 28:2-4 | TSK | STEP

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

2 Samuel 16:16-19

God save the king. Heb. let the king live.

1Sa 10:24; 1Ki 1:25,34; 2Ki 11:12; Da 2:4; 5:10; 6:6,21; Mt 21:9

Is this thy.

De 32:6

why wentest.

15:32-37; 19:25; Pr 17:17; 18:24

5:1-3; 1Sa 16:13

should I not serve.

15:34; 1Sa 28:2; 29:8; Ps 55:21; Ga 2:13

2 Samuel 17:7-13

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

1 Kings 22:6

the prophets together.

18:19; 2Ti 4:3

Go up.

15,22,23; 2Ch 18:14; Jer 5:31; 8:10,11; 14:13,14; 23:14-17

Jer 28:1-9; Eze 13:7-16,22; Mt 7:15; 2Pe 2:1-3; Re 19:20

the Lord.This prophecy is couched in the ambiguous terms in which the heathen oracles were delivered. It may mean, either "The Lord will deliver it (Ramoth Gilead) into the king's (Ahab's) hand;" or, "The Lord will deliver (Israel) into the king's (of Syria) hand." So in the famous reply of the Delphian oracle to Pyrrhus: {Aio te Æacida, Romanos vincere posse: Ibis redibis nunquam in bello peribis;} "I say to thee, Pyrrhus the Romans shall overcome: thou shalt go, thou shalt return never in war shalt thou perish."

1 Kings 22:13

Behold now.

Ps 10:11; 11:1; 14:1; 50:21; Isa 30:10,11; Ho 7:3; Am 7:13-17

Mic 2:6,7,11; 1Co 2:14-16

Jeremiah 28:2-4

27:2-12; Eze 13:5-16; Mic 3:11

two full years. Heb. two years of days.

Ge 47:9,28; Ps 90:10

all the.

27:16-22

that.

2Ki 24:13; 2Ch 36:10; Da 1:2

I will bring.This was doubtless grateful news to the people, who looked upon Zedekiah only as Nebuchadnezzar's deputy. Hananiah seems to have been more desirous of popular than regal favour; for this prediction could not be altogether agreeable to Zedekiah. But he was evidently a weak as well as a wicked prince, and very generally despised.

Jeconiah.

22:24,28

Coniah

24:1; 52:31-34; 2Ki 25:27-30

Jehoiachin. captives. Heb. captivity.

24:5; *marg:

I will break.

2,10; 2:20; 30:8; Ge 27:40; Isa 9:4; Na 1:13