_AND WHEN DAVID WAS A LITTLE PAST THE TOP OF THE HILL, BEHOLD, ZIBA THE SERVANT OF MEPHIBOSHETH MET HIM, WITH A COUPLE OF ASSES SADDLED, AND UPON THEM TWO HUNDRED LOAVES OF BREAD, AND AN HUNDRED BUNCHES OF RAISINS, AND AN HUNDRED OF SUMMER FRUITS, AND A BOTTLE OF WINE._ When David was a little past... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE KING SAID UNTO ZIBA, WHAT MEANEST THOU BY THESE? AND ZIBA SAID, THE ASSES BE FOR THE KING'S HOUSEHOLD TO RIDE ON; AND THE BREAD AND SUMMER FRUIT FOR THE YOUNG MEN TO EAT; AND THE WINE, THAT SUCH AS BE FAINT IN THE WILDERNESS MAY DRINK._ The asses be for the king's household to ride on. The... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE KING SAID, AND WHERE IS THY MASTER'S SON? AND ZIBA SAID UNTO THE KING, BEHOLD, HE ABIDETH AT JERUSALEM: FOR HE SAID, TO DAY SHALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL RESTORE ME THE KINGDOM OF MY FATHER._ Today shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father. Such a hope might not unnaturally... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SAID THE KING TO ZIBA, BEHOLD, THINE ARE ALL THAT PERTAINED UNTO MEPHIBOSHETH. AND ZIBA SAID, I HUMBLY BESEECH THEE THAT I MAY FIND GRACE IN THY SIGHT, MY LORD, O KING._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN KING DAVID CAME TO BAHURIM, BEHOLD, THENCE CAME OUT A MAN OF THE FAMILY OF THE HOUSE OF SAUL, WHOSE NAME WAS SHIMEI, THE SON OF GERA: HE CAME FORTH, AND CURSED STILL AS HE CAME._ When king David came to Bahurim - a city of Benjamin (2 Samuel 3:16; 2 Samuel 19:16). It is, however, only the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE CAST STONES AT DAVID, AND AT ALL THE SERVANTS OF KING DAVID: AND ALL THE PEOPLE AND ALL THE MIGHTY MEN WERE ON HIS RIGHT HAND AND ON HIS LEFT._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SAID TO ABISHAI, AND TO ALL HIS SERVANTS, BEHOLD, MY SON, WHICH CAME FORTH OF MY BOWELS, SEEKETH MY LIFE: HOW MUCH MORE NOW MAY THIS BENJAMITE DO IT? LET HIM ALONE, AND LET HIM CURSE; FOR THE LORD HATH BIDDEN HIM._ Let him curse; for the Lord hath bidden him. The Orientals make use of bo... [ Continue Reading ]
_IT MAY BE THAT THE LORD WILL LOOK ON MINE AFFLICTION, AND THAT THE LORD WILL REQUITE ME GOOD FOR HIS_ _ IT MAY BE THAT THE LORD WILL LOOK ON MINE AFFLICTION, AND THAT THE LORD WILL REQUITE ME GOOD FOR HIS CURSING THIS DAY._ It may be that the Lord ... will requite me good for his cursing this day,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AS DAVID AND HIS MEN WENT BY THE WAY, SHIMEI WENT ALONG ON THE HILL'S SIDE OVER AGAINST HIM, AND CURSED AS HE WENT, AND THREW STONES AT HIM, AND CAST DUST._ Went along on the hill's side over against him - as he descended the rough road on the eastern side of the mount of Olives; 'went along t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE KING, AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM, CAME WEARY, AND REFRESHED THEMSELVES THERE._ Came weary, and refreshed themselves there - in the city of Bahurim, as is generally understood. [But Reland ('Palaestina'), followed by Houbigant and others, take _ `ªYEEPIYM_ (H5889), rendered "wear... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABSALOM, AND ALL THE PEOPLE THE MEN OF ISRAEL, CAME TO JERUSALEM, AND AHITHOPHEL WITH HIM._ Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem. From Hebron they marched to the capital, of which, in its defenseless and deserted state, they obtained immediate possession, and there... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN HUSHAI THE ARCHITE, DAVID'S FRIEND, WAS COME UNTO ABSALOM, THAT HUSHAI SAID UNTO ABSALOM, GOD SAVE THE KING, GOD SAVE THE KING._ Hushai said unto Absalom, God save the king. Hushai's devotion to David was so well known, that his presence in the camp of the conspirators ex... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABSALOM SAID TO HUSHAI, IS THIS THY KINDNESS TO THY FRIEND? WHY WENTEST THOU NOT WITH THY FRIEND?_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SAID ABSALOM TO AHITHOPHEL, GIVE COUNSEL AMONG YOU WHAT WE SHALL DO._ Give counsel among you what we shall do. This is the first cabinet council on record, although the deference paid to Ahithophel gave him the entire direction of the proceedings.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AHITHOPHEL SAID UNTO ABSALOM, GO IN UNTO THY FATHER'S CONCUBINES, WHICH HE HATH LEFT TO KEEP THE_ _ HOUSE; AND ALL ISRAEL SHALL HEAR THAT THOU ART ABHORRED OF THY FATHER: THEN SHALL THE HANDS OF ALL THAT ARE WITH THEE BE STRONG._ Ahithophel said unto Absalom. This councillor saw that, now the... [ Continue Reading ]