Verse 2 Samuel 20:15. They cast up a bank against the city] The word סללה solelah, which we render bank, means, most probably, a battering engine of some kind, or a tower overlooking the walls, on which archers and slingers could stand and annoy the inhabitants, while others of the besiegers could proceed to sap the walls. That it cannot be a bank that stood in the trench, is evident from the circumstance thus expressed.
CAST UP A BANK - See the marginal references. The throwing up of mounds against the walls of besieged places by the besiegers is well illustrated in the Assyrian sculptures. THE TRENCH - The “pomoeri...
10. THE REVOLT OF SHEBA CHAPTER 20 _ 1. Sheba's revolt (2 Samuel 20:1)_ 2. The ten concubines shut up (2 Samuel 20:3) 3. Amasa's failure (2 Samuel 20:4) 4. Joab and the death of Amasa ...
1 SAMUEL 20. THE REVOLT OF SHEBA (J). 2 SAMUEL 20:1 F. The result of this altercation was a fresh rebellion under a Benjamite, Sheba ben Bichri. 2 SAMUEL 20:3. The members of the king's harem whom...
BANK. mound. TRENCH. rampart....
_cast up a bank_ The besiegers erected a mound of earth against the city wall to enable them to batter the upper and weaker part of it. This stood in "the trench" or outwork of the city: a term which...
Sheba besieged in Abel-Beth-Maachah 14. _And he went_ Joab marched rapidly northward, gathering forces as he went. _unto Abel, and to Beth-maachah_ Abel was apparently near Beth-Maachah, which is not...
THEY CAST UP A BANK AGAINST THE CITY— The LXX render it, _they levelled the bank,_ or _glacis, of the city;_ which receives some countenance from the words immediately following, _and it stood in the...
_Sheba's Death._ 2 Samuel 20:14-23 14 And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Beth-maachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him. 15 And...
_AND THEY CAME AND BESIEGED HIM IN ABEL OF BETH-MA'ACHAH, AND THEY CAST UP A BANK AGAINST THE CITY, AND IT STOOD IN THE TRENCH: AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH JOAB BATTERED THE WALL, TO THROW IT DO...
THE REBELLION OF SHEBA Sheba takes advantage of the jealousy of the men of Israel to begin a rebellion, which, but for the prompt action of Joab, might have resulted in a disruption between Israel and...
THEY CAST UP A BANK AGAINST THE CITY] cp. 2 Kings 19:32. It enabled the besiegers to bring their battering-rams close up to the wall. IT STOOD IN THE TRENCH] RV 'it stood against the rampart.'...
DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL 2 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 20 SHEBA OPPOSES DAVID V1 Sheba, the son of Bicri, happened to be there. He came from the *tribe of Benjamin. He was a wicked man....
(15)ABEL OF BETH-MAACHAH. — Omit the preposition “of.” (See 2 Samuel 20:14.) STOOD IN THE TRENCH. — The “trench” is the space between the wall of the city and the lower outer wall. When the besiegers...
וַ יָּבֹ֜אוּ וַ יָּצֻ֣רוּ עָלָ֗יו בְּ אָבֵ֨לָ
ONE HEAD SAVES MANY 2 Samuel 20:14 This wise woman, by her intervention, saved many lives, and reminds us of the value of presence of mind in a great crisis. She gave Joab to understand, first, that...
The occasion invariably finds the man for evil as well as for good. Sheba seized the strife between Judah and Israel as an opportunity to attempt to divide the kingdom. David's hosts went forth again...
And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that [were] with Joab (k) battered the wall, to throw it...
Works. Hebrew, a bank, or terrace against the city, and it stood in the trench; (Haydock) so that the town ditch was filled up, (Grotius) or terraces were raised, from which archers assailed the besie...
(14) В¶ And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him. (15) And they came and besieged him i...
In the sketch proposed of these books of scripture there is of course no pretension to notice every point of interest they contain, but only a general comprehensive view, as far as the Lord enables me...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 14 THROUGH 20. David's partiality for Absalom had yet other and more painful results, and heavy chastisements. It is painful to see the conqueror of Goliath d...
AND THEY CAME AND BESIEGED HIM IN ABEL OF BETHMAACHAH,.... That is, Joab and Abishai, with the forces under them, who pursued him hither: AND THEY CAST UP A BANK AGAINST THE CITY; which some understa...
And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that [were] with Joab battered the wall, to throw it dow...
_They came and besieged him_ Joab and his army pursued him thither. _And cast up a bank_ They raised a very large mound of earth, equal, probably, to the height of the walls, from whence they might ei...
1 By occasion of the quarrell, Sheba maketh a party in Israel. 3 Dauids ten concubines are shut vp in perpetual prison. 4 Amasa made captaine ouer Iudah, is slaine by Ioab. 14 Ioab pursueth Sheba v...
And they came and besieged him, Sheba, IN ABEL OF BETH-MAACHAH, AND THEY CAST UP A BANK, threw up a high embankment, AGAINST THE CITY, AND IT STOOD IN THE TRENCH, it reached the height of, and was joi...
THE DEATH OF SHEBA...
Satan is always ready to take advantage of such occasions among God's people, and he had a man there of worthless, ambitious character, Sheba, the son of Bichri was actually a Benjamite, not from any...
IT STOOD IN THE TRENCH: Or, it stood against the outmost wall BATTERED THE WALL, TO THROW IT DOWN: _ Heb._ marred to throw down...
14-22 Justly is that place attacked, which dares to harbour a traitor; nor will the heart fare better which indulges rebellious lusts, that will not have Christ to reign over them. A discreet woman,...
THEY CAME, i.e. Joab and his army, which is easily understood, both from the foregoing and following verses. THEY CAST UP A BANK; from whence they might either batter the wall, or shoot at those who d...
2 Samuel 20:15 came H935 (H8799) besieged H6696 (H8799) Abel H59 Maachah H1038 up H8210 (H8799) mound...
CONTENTS: Joab murders Amasa. Suppression of Sheba's revolt. CHARACTERS: David, Joab, Amasa, Sheba, Abishai. CONCLUSION: We must not think it strange while in this world if the end of one trouble be...
2 Samuel 20:1. _Sheba, a Benjamite,_ and a captain high in command under Absalom, in whose heart the embers of revolt were still burning. This man, seeing the anger of the tribes at not being called t...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 20:1 Sheba’s rebellion is directly connected with the split within the nation seen in 2 Samuel 19:41. This particular rebellion does not seem to have gained support ou
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 20:15 The MOUND is a ramp built against the wall to get near its top. ⇐...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES.— 2 Samuel 20:14. “ABEL.” _Lit., meadow_, and the name of several places in Palestine, but from its proximity to Beth-Maachah (with which it is sometimes joined, 2 Samuel...
EXPOSITION 2 SAMUEL 20:1 THERE HAPPENED TO BE THERE A MAN OF BELIAL. The fierce words of the men of Judah led to evil results. It was a time when all wise and thoughtful persons would have laboured f...
But in chapter twenty, this division is manifested by this particular fellow by the name of Sheba, who is of the tribe of Benjamin. And he blew a trumpet in Israel, which was always a signal gathering...
2 Kings 19:32; Jeremiah 32:24; Jeremiah 33:4; Luke 19:43...
They — That is, Joab and his army. A bank — From whence they might either batter the wall, or shoot at those who defended it. It stood — The bank stood in, or near to the trench, or the wall of the ci...