_THEN ALL ISRAEL GATHERED THEMSELVES TO DAVID UNTO HEBRON, SAYING, BEHOLD, WE ARE THY BONE AND THY FLESH._ Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron. This event happened on the death of Ishbosheth (see the notes at 2 Samuel 5:1). The convention of the estates of the kingdom, the publ... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOREOVER IN TIME PAST, EVEN WHEN SAUL WAS KING, THOU WAST HE THAT LEDDEST OUT AND BROUGHTEST IN ISRAEL: AND THE LORD THY GOD SAID UNTO THEE, THOU SHALT FEED MY PEOPLE ISRAEL, AND THOU SHALT BE RULER OVER MY PEOPLE ISRAEL._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID AND ALL ISRAEL WENT TO JERUSALEM, WHICH IS JEBUS; WHERE THE JEBUSITES WERE, THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND._ David and all Israel went to ... Jebus - (see the notes at 2 Samuel 5:6)... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE INHABITANTS OF JEBUS SAID TO DAVID, THOU SHALT NOT COME HITHER. NEVERTHELESS DAVID TOOK THE CASTLE OF ZION, WHICH IS THE CITY OF DAVID._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SAID, WHOSOEVER SMITETH THE JEBUSITES FIRST SHALL BE CHIEF AND CAPTAIN. SO JOAB THE SON OF ZERUIAH WENT FIRST UP, AND WAS CHIEF._ David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites, х_ YªBUWCIY_ (H2983), a Jebusite (cf. 2 Samuel 5:8). The Septuagint has: pas tuptoon Iebousaion, each one strikin... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID DWELT IN THE CASTLE; THEREFORE THEY CALLED IT THE CITY OF DAVID._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE BUILT THE CITY ROUND ABOUT, EVEN FROM MILLO ROUND ABOUT: AND JOAB REPAIRED THE REST OF THE CITY._ And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about - (see the note at 2 Samuel 5:9.) [Septuagint, Vatican, kai ookodomeese teen polin kukloo, and he built the city in a circuit. The... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO DAVID WAXED GREATER AND GREATER: FOR THE LORD OF HOSTS WAS WITH HIM._ So David waxed greater and greater, [wayeelekHSN-1980) _ DAAWIYD_ (H1732), and David went going, and increasing; Septuagint, kai eporeueto Dauid poreuomenos kai megalunomenos].... [ Continue Reading ]
_THESE ALSO ARE THE CHIEF OF THE MIGHTY MEN WHOM DAVID HAD, WHO STRENGTHENED THEMSELVES WITH HIM IN HIS KINGDOM, AND WITH ALL ISRAEL, TO MAKE HIM KING, ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD CONCERNING ISRAEL._ These ... are the chief of the mighty men - (see the notes at 2 Samuel 23:8.) They are here d... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THIS IS THE NUMBER OF THE MIGHTY MEN WHOM DAVID HAD; JASHOBEAM, AN HACHMONITE, THE CHIEF OF THE CAPTAINS: HE LIFTED UP HIS SPEAR AGAINST THREE HUNDRED SLAIN BY HIM AT ONE TIME._ Jashobeam, an Hachmonite - or son of Hachmoni. He is called also son of Zabdiel (1 Chronicles 27:2), so that he was... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AFTER HIM WAS ELEAZAR THE SON OF DODO, THE AHOHITE, WHO WAS ONE OF THE THREE MIGHTIES._ The three mighties. Only two are mentioned-namely, Jashobeam and Eleazar; the third, Shammah (see the note at 2 Samuel 23:11), is not named in this passage.... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE WAS WITH DAVID AT PASDAMMIM, AND THERE THE PHILISTINES WERE GATHERED TOGETHER TO BATTLE, WHERE WAS A PARCEL OF GROUND FULL OF BARLEY; AND THE PEOPLE FLED FROM BEFORE THE PHILISTINES._ He was with David at Pas-dammim. It was at the time when he was a fugitive in the wilderness; and, parched with... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY SET THEMSELVES IN THE MIDST OF THAT PARCEL, AND DELIVERED IT, AND SLEW THE PHILISTINES; AND THE LORD SAVED THEM BY A GREAT DELIVERANCE._ And the Lord saved them by a great deliverance, [Septuagint, kai epoieese kurios sooteerian megaleen.] Ephes-dammim was situated between Shocoh and Azek... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THREE OF THE THIRTY CAPTAINS WENT DOWN TO THE ROCK TO DAVID, INTO THE CAVE OF ADULLAM; AND THE HOST OF THE PHILISTINES ENCAMPED IN THE VALLEY OF REPHAIM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID LONGED, AND SAID, OH THAT ONE WOULD GIVE ME DRINK OF THE WATER OF THE WELL OF BETHLEHEM, THAT IS_ _ AT THE GATE!_ David longed, and said, Oh ... drink ... of the well of Beth-lehem - (see 2 Samuel 23:15.) This chivalrous, act evinces the enthusiastic devotion of David's men, that they we... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE THREE BRAKE THROUGH THE HOST OF THE PHILISTINES, AND DREW WATER OUT OF THE WELL OF BETHLEHEM, THAT WAS BY THE GATE, AND TOOK IT, AND BROUGHT IT TO DAVID: BUT DAVID WOULD NOT DRINK OF IT, BUT POURED IT OUT TO THE LORD,_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_OF THE THREE, HE WAS MORE HONOURABLE THAN THE TWO; FOR HE WAS THEIR CAPTAIN: HOWBEIT HE ATTAINED NOT TO THE FIRST THREE._ Howbeit he attained not to the first three - (see the note at 2 Samuel 23:19.)... [ Continue Reading ]
_BENAIAH THE SON OF JEHOIADA, THE SON OF A VALIANT MAN OF KABZEEL, WHO HAD DONE MANY ACTS; HE SLEW TWO LIONLIKE MEN OF MOAB: ALSO HE WENT DOWN AND SLEW A LION IN A PIT IN A SNOWY DAY._ Benaiah ... of Kabzeel - a town in the south of Judah (Joshua 15:21; Nehemiah 11:25). It is said that he "had done... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SLEW AN EGYPTIAN, A MAN OF GREAT STATURE, FIVE CUBITS HIGH; AND IN THE EGYPTIAN'S HAND WAS A SPEAR LIKE A WEAVER'S BEAM; AND HE WENT DOWN TO HIM WITH A STAFF, AND PLUCKED THE SPEAR OUT OF THE EGYPTIAN'S HAND, AND SLEW HIM WITH HIS OWN SPEAR._ He went down - the ordinary phraseology for expr... [ Continue Reading ]
_THESE THINGS DID BENAIAH THE SON OF JEHOIADA, AND HAD THE NAME AMONG THE THREE MIGHTIES._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BEHOLD, HE WAS HONOURABLE AMONG THE THIRTY, BUT ATTAINED NOT TO THE FIRST THREE: AND DAVID SET HIM OVER HIS GUARD._ David set him over his guard - the Cherethites and Pelethites that composed the small body-guard in immediate attendance on the king.... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALSO THE VALIANT MEN OF THE ARMIES WERE, ASAHEL THE BROTHER OF JOAB, ELHANAN THE SON OF DODO OF BETHLEHEM,_ Also the valiant men of the armies. This was the third degree of military rank, and Asahel was their chief: the names of few of those mentioned are historically known. The variation of the n... [ Continue Reading ]
_SHAMMOTH THE HARORITE, HELEZ THE PELONITE,_ Shammoth. Between this name and Hebez, that of Elikah has evidently fallen out, as we may see, 2 Samuel 23:25 (Bertheau, 'Commentary,' in loco; also Kennicott, 'Dissertation,' p. 182, who suggests a conjectural reason for the omission).... [ Continue Reading ]
_IRA THE SON OF IKKESH THE TEKOITE, ABI-EZER THE ANTOTHITE,_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_MAHARAI THE NETOPHATHITE, HELED THE SON OF BAANAH THE NETOPHATHITE,_ Maharai - chief of the detachment of the guards who attended on the king in the tenth mouth, January (1 Chronicles 27:13; 2 Samuel 23:28).... [ Continue Reading ]
_ITHAI THE SON OF RIBAI OF GIBEAH, THAT PERTAINED TO THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN, BENAIAH THE PIRATHONITE,_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_ZELEK THE AMMONITE, NAHARAI THE BEROTHITE, THE ARMOURBEARER OF JOAB THE SON OF ZERUIAH,_ Naharai - amour-bearer to Joab (2 Samuel 23:37). The non-occurrence of Joab's name in any of the three catalogues is most probably to be accounted for by the circumstance that his office as commander-in-chief... [ Continue Reading ]
_IRA THE ITHRITE, GAREB THE ITHRITE,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_URIAH THE HITTITE, ZABAD THE SON OF AHLAI,_ Uriah the Hittite. The enrollment of this name in such a list, attesting, as it does, his distinguished merits as a brave devoted officer, aggravates the criminality of David's outrage on his life and honour. ZABAD THE SON OF AHLAI (1 Chronicles 2:31). T... [ Continue Reading ]