Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
2 Samuel 5:17
This was a united and determined effort to crush David before he became too powerful.
The hold] It is uncertain what place is meant.
This was a united and determined effort to crush David before he became too powerful.
The hold] It is uncertain what place is meant.
Verse 2 Samuel 5:17. _THE PHILISTINES CAME UP TO SEEK DAVID_] Ever since the defeat of the Israelites and the fall of Saul and his sons, the Philistines seem to have been in undisturbed possession of...
THE HOLD - Not the same place which is so named in 2Sa 5:7, 2 Samuel 5:9, but probably the cave (or hold) of Adullam 2 Samuel 23:13. The invasion most probably took place before David had completed hi...
2. DAVID'S CONQUEST OF ZION AND VICTORY OVER THE PHILISTINES CHAPTER 5:6-25 _ 1. David's conquest of Zion (2 Samuel 5:6)_ 2. Hiram King of Tyre (2 Samuel 5:11) 3. David's additional concubines and...
VICTORIES OVER THE PHILISTINES (J). (_Cf._ p. 67.) David twice defeats the Philistines in the Valley of Rephaim (p. 31, Isaiah 17:5 *). The growing strength of David had roused the apprehensions of hi...
SEEK. Compare 1 Samuel 26:2. HOLD. Probably Adullam. 1 Samuel 22:1. Not Zion, because he went "down "to it....
Two victories over the Philistines =1 Chronicles 14:8-16 17. _But when the Philistines heard_ This Philistine invasion probably followed soon after the capture of Jebus. The Philistines were alarmed...
_David Against the Philistines_ 2 Samuel 5:17-25 17 But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard _of it,_ a...
_BUT WHEN THE PHILISTINES HEARD THAT THEY HAD ANOINTED DAVID KING OVER ISRAEL, ALL THE PHILISTINES CAME UP TO SEEK DAVID; AND DAVID HEARD OF IT, AND WENT DOWN TO THE HOLD._ When the Philistines heard...
DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL 2 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 5 This chapter records three very important things that David did: (1) He united the nation of *Israel. (2) He made the city of Je...
WHEN THE PHILISTINES HEARD. — After this general summary, the narrative goes back to take up detailed events in their order. First comes an attack of the Philistines. Their attention had naturally bee...
וַ יִּשְׁמְע֣וּ פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים כִּי ־מָשְׁח֨וּ אֶת...
CHAPTER VII. _ THE KINGDOM ESTABLISHED._ 2 Samuel 5:10. THE events in David's reign that followed the capture of Mount Zion and the appointment of Jerusalem as the capital of the country were all of...
JEHOVAH'S VICTORIES OVER THE PHILISTINES 2 Samuel 5:13 David's prosperity led to luxurious living and sensual indulgence, out of which sprang the troubles of his after-life, 2 Samuel 5:13; 2 Samuel...
At this point the second section in the first movement of the Book commences. David had won the heart of all Israel by his consistent justice and magnanimity toward those who stood in the way of his c...
_Seek, or attack David. He went out to meet them. (Par.[1 Paralipomenon xiv. 8.?]) But receiving an order not to join battle as yet, retired to Odollam, (chap. xxiii. 13., and 1 Paralipomenon xi. 15.;...
(17) В¶ But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the hold. (18) The Philistines...
We have seen the sorrowful circumstances out of which arose the first desire to have a king in Israel, and the remarkable fact that, although it was a sin, God nevertheless did not put the people back...
David, the king of Judah in Hebron for seven years and a half, becomes the king of all Israel upon Ishbosheth's death And now David is no longer the man of faith who, himself the head of the armies of...
BUT WHEN THE PHILISTINES HEARD THAT THEY HAD ANOINTED DAVID KING OVER ISRAEL,.... That the civil war in the nation was now at an end, which they hoped would have issued in their destruction, and there...
But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard [of it], and went down to the hold. Ver. 17. _Came up to seek...
_All the Philistines came up to seek David_ They raised all the forces they were able, to come up to David, and fight him before he was settled in his new kingdom. While the civil war subsisted betwee...
1 The tribes come to Hebron to annoint Dauid ouer Israel. 4 Dauids age. 6 Hee taking Zion from the Iebusites dwelleth in it. 11 Hiram sendeth to Dauid. 13 Eleuen sonnes are borne to him in Ierusal...
TWO VICTORIES OF DAVID OVER THE PHILISTINES...
But when the Philistines heard that they, the people of Israel, HAD ANOINTED DAVID KING OVER ISRAEL, ALL THE PHILISTINES, all the armies of the confederate city-states, CAME UP TO SEEK DAVID, marching...
Yet the sovereign wisdom of God has been over all these matters, and David's way becomes clear without his fighting for it. God's time had now come for the voluntary submission of the other tribes to...
17-25 The Philistines considered not that David had the presence of God with him, which Saul had forfeited and lost. The kingdom of the Messiah, as soon as it was set up in the world, was thus attack...
Whilst the civil war lasted between the houses of Saul and David, they wisely forbore all hostilities, and left them to tear out one another's bowels, that afterwards they might make a more easy conqu...
2 Samuel 5:17 Philistines H6430 heard H8085 (H8799) anointed H4886 (H8804) David H1732 king H4428 Israel H3478 Phi
DAVID ONCE AGAIN OVERWHELMS THE PHILISTINES WITH THE HELP OF YHWH (2 SAMUEL 5:17). It was inevitable that once the news reached the Philistines that David had been anointed as king over all Israel, th...
CONTENTS: David becomes king over Israel. War with Philistines. CHARACTERS: God, David, Hiram. CONCLUSION: Those who have the Lord of Hosts for them need have no fear what hosts of men or demons can...
2 Samuel 5:2. _Thou shalt feed my people._ Probably the highpriest, or a prophet, delivered a short coronation charge, as Samuel had already done. This divine promise is made the final reason why they...
_And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent messengers to David._ THE KINGDOM ESTABLISHED 1. Now the tide fairly turned in David’s history, and that, instead of a sad chronicle of hardship and disappointment, the...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 5:17 Until now the PHILISTINES may have considered David to be a paid soldier fighting for them (1 Samuel 27:1). But when David becomes
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 2 Samuel 5:6. “WENT TO JERUSALEM.” “That this took place immediately after the anointing of David as king of Israel is apparent not only from the fact that the account f...
EXPOSITION 2 SAMUEL 5:1 THEN CAME ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL. As Ishbosheth reigned only two years, and David's reign at Hebron lasted for seven years and a half, there is an interval of more than five...
Then all of the tribes came to David there in Hebron, and they said, Behold, we're of your bone, we're of your flesh. In times past, when Saul was king, you were the one that led us out to victories o...
1 Chronicles 11:16; 1 Chronicles 14:8; 1 Chronicles 14:9; 2 Samuel 23:14;...
The hold — To some fortified place to which his people might conveniently resort from all places, and where he might intrench his army, which lay towards the Philistines....