2Sa 4:4, 9:6, 10, 19:24-30 | TSK | STEP | Jonathan. when the tidings. Mephibosheth. Meribbaal.

2 Samuel 4:4

Jonathan.

9:3

when the tidings.

1Sa 29:1,11; 31:1-10

Mephibosheth.

1Ch 8:34; 9:40

Meribbaal.

2 Samuel 9:6

Mephibosheth.

1Ch 8:34; 9:40

called Meribbaal. he fell.

Ge 18:2; 33:3; 1Sa 20:41; 25:23

2 Samuel 9:10

shall eat bread.The eating at courts was of two kinds; the one public and ceremonious, the other private. Sir John Chardin understands those passages which speak of a right to eat at the royal table, as pointing out a right to a seat there, when the repast was public and solemn. So in a MS. Note on 1 Ki 2:7, he tells us that it was to be understood of the {majilis,} (the term for an assembly of lords, or a public feast,) and not of the daily and ordinary repast. Hence, though Mephibosheth was to eat at all public times at the king's table, yet he would want the produce of his lands for food at other times, which it was necessary for Ziba to understand.

7,11-13; 19:28; 2Ki 25:29; Lu 14:15

2 Samuel 19:24-30

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

were.

Ge 32:10