2Sa 16:1-3, 19:24-27, Pro 18:13, Act 24:5-6, 12-13 | TSK | STEP | Ziba, by presents and false suggestions, obtains his master's inheritance. At Bahurim Shimei curse David. David with patience abstains, and restrains others, from revenge. Hushai insinuates himself into Absalom's counsel. Ahithophel's counsel. little past. Ziba. with a couple. summer.These were probably pumpkins, cucumbers, or water-melons; the two latter being extensively used in the East to refresh travellers in the burning heat of the summer; and probably, as Mr. Harmer supposes, called summer fruits on this very account. a bottle.

2 Samuel 16:1-3

1 Ziba, by presents and false suggestions, obtains his master's inheritance.

5 At Bahurim Shimei curse David.

9 David with patience abstains, and restrains others, from revenge.

15 Hushai insinuates himself into Absalom's counsel.

20 Ahithophel's counsel.

little past.

15:30,32

Ziba.

9:2,9-12

with a couple.

17:27-29; 19:32; 1Sa 17:17,18; 25:18; 1Ch 12:40; Pr 18:16; 29:4,5

summer.These were probably pumpkins, cucumbers, or water-melons; the two latter being extensively used in the East to refresh travellers in the burning heat of the summer; and probably, as Mr. Harmer supposes, called summer fruits on this very account.

Jer 40:10,12; Am 8:1; Mic 7:1

a bottle.

1Sa 10:3; 16:20

What meanest.

Ge 21:29; 33:8; Eze 37:18The asses. This is the eastern mode of speaking when presenting any thing to a great man: "This is for the slaves of the servants of your majesty;" when at the same time the presents are intended for the sovereign himself, and it is so understood.

15:1; 19:26; Jud 5:10; 10:4

for the young.

1Sa 25:27

that such.

15:23; 17:29; Jud 8:4,5; 1Sa 14:28; Pr 31:6,7

where is.

9:9,10; Ps 88:18; Mic 7:5

Today.

19:24-30; Ex 20:16; De 19:18,19; Ps 15:3; 101:5; Pr 1:19; 21:28

1Ti 6:9,10; Jude 1:11

2 Samuel 19:24-27

Mephibosheth.

9:6; 16:3

dressed his feet.Literally, made his feet, which seems to mean washing the feet paring the nails, and perhaps anointing or otherwise perfuming them, if not tinging the nails with henna; see Note on De 21:12. Sir John Chardin, in his MS. note on this place, informs us, that it is customary in the East to have as much care of the feet as the hands; and that their barbers cut and adjust the nails with a proper instrument, because they often go barefoot. The nails of the toes of the mummies inspected in London in 1763, of which an account is given in the Philosophical Transactions for 1764, seem to have been tinged with some reddish colour.

15:30; Isa 15:2; Jer 41:5; Mt 6:16; Ro 12:15; Heb 13:3

trimmed.Literally, made his beard, which may mean, combing, curling, and perfuming it. But Mr. Morier says that they almost universally dye the beard black, by successive layers of a paste made of henna, and another made of the leaf of the indigo: the first tinging with an orange colour, and the next with a dark bottle green, which becomes jet black when exposed to the air for twenty-four hours.

Wherefore.

16:17

I will saddle.

16:2,3

thy servant.

4:4

slandered.

16:3; Ex 20:16; Ps 15:3; 101:5; Jer 9:4

as an angel.

14:17,20; 1Sa 29:9