2Sa 19:24, 28, 21:7, 1Ki 12:6-8, 2Ch 24:22, Isa 41:8-10, Jer 2:5 | TSK | STEP | Mephibosheth. 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. 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.

2 Samuel 19:24

Mephibosheth.

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.

2 Samuel 19:28

were.

Ge 32:10

dead men. Heb. men of death.

1Sa 26:16

didst thou.

9:7,8,10,13

to cry.

2Ki 8:3

2 Samuel 21:7

Mephibosheth.

4:4; 9:10; 16:4; 19:25

because.

1Sa 18:3; 20:8,15,17,42; 23:18

1 Kings 12:6-8

consulted.

2Sa 16:20; 17:5; Job 12:12; 32:7; Pr 27:10; Jer 42:2-5; 43:2

If thou wilt.

2Ch 10:6,7; Pr 15:1; Mr 10:43,44; Php 2:7-11

speak good.

13; 2Sa 15:3-6; Ec 10:4; Zec 1:13

2Ch 10:8; 25:15,16; Pr 1:2-5,25,30; 19:20; 25:12; Ec 10:2,3

2 Chronicles 24:22

remembered.

Ps 109:4; Lu 17:15-18; Joh 10:32

but slew his son.

Pr 17:13

The Lord.These words were prophetic, and not imprecatory; and should be rendered as Houbigant proposes, in the future tense: "The Lord will look upon it, and avenge it." The event soon verified this prediction; for, before the year was expired, the Syrians came up against Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people, and Joash himself was slain in his bed by his own servants. Many circumstances served to aggravate this barbarous act. Zechariah was a high-priest and a prophet, upright and unblameable in the discharge of his high offices; this murder was perpetrated within the very precincts of the courts of the Lord; and this truly good man was by blood the nearest relative of Joash, and the son of the man who had save him from being murdered, and raised him to the throne!

Ge 9:5; Jer 11:20; 26:14,15; Lu 11:51; 2Ti 4:14,16; Re 6:9-11

Re 18:20; 19:2

and require it.

Ps 10:14; Jer 51:56