2 Samuel 19:1,2
_AND IT WAS TOLD JOAB, BEHOLD, THE KING WEEPETH AND MOURNETH FOR ABSALOM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_AND IT WAS TOLD JOAB, BEHOLD, THE KING WEEPETH AND MOURNETH FOR ABSALOM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle. LES GENS LES FAUFILÈRENT FURTIVEMENT ... DANS LA VILLE. La rumeur de la condition inconsolable du roi répandit une tristesse universelle et insaisissable. Ses troupes, au lieu... [ Continuer la lecture ]
But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son! LE ROI S'EST COUVERT LE VISAGE - l'un des signes habituels de deuil (voir les notes à 2 Samuel 15:30) .... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines; TU AS FAIT HONTE ... AUX VISAGES DE TOUS T... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_IN THAT THOU LOVEST THINE ENEMIES, AND HATEST THY FRIENDS. FOR THOU HAST DECLARED THIS DAY, THAT THOU REGARDEST NEITHER PRINCES NOR SERVANTS: FOR THIS DAY I PERCEIVE, THAT IF ABSALOM HAD LIVED, AND ALL WE HAD DIED THIS DAY, THEN IT HAD PLEASED THEE WELL._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now. MAINTENANT, LÈVE-TOI, VA ET PARLE CO... [ Continuer la lecture ]
Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent. LE ROI SE LEVA ET S'ASSIT À LA PORTE - apparaissait quotidiennement à l'endroit habituel... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom. TOUT LE MONDE ÉTAIT EN CONFLIT. Le royaume était complètement dé... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_AND ABSALOM, WHOM WE ANOINTED OVER US, IS DEAD IN BATTLE. NOW THEREFORE WHY SPEAK YE NOT A WORD OF BRINGING THE KING BACK?_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab. ET DITES-VOUS À AMASA ... C'était aussi un coup de main adroit de la politique. David était pleinement conscient de l'import... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants. IL A COURBÉ LE CŒUR DE TOUS LES HOMMES DE JUDA - i: e., Amasa, qui avait été conquis, a usé de sa grande influence pour rattacher le tout tr... [ Continuer la lecture ]
So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan. JUDA EST VENU À GUILGAL - comme l'endroit le plus commode où les préparatifs pourraient être faits pour amener le roi et la cour sur le Jourdain.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which was of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David. SHIMEI ...... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king. UN MILLIER D'HOMMES DE BENJAMIN AVEC LUI. Cette démonstration de ses partisans devait montrer quelle for... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan; FERRY BOAT - probablement des radeaux, qui sont encore utilisés sur cette partie de la rivière. S'il y avait un fe... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_AND SAID UNTO THE KING, LET NOT MY LORD IMPUTE INIQUITY UNTO ME, NEITHER DO THOU REMEMBER THAT WHICH THY SERVANT DID PERVERSELY THE DAY THAT MY LORD THE KING WENT OUT OF JERUSALEM, THAT THE KING SHOULD TAKE IT TO HIS HEART._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king. LE PREMIER ... DE TOUTE LA MAISON DE JOSEPH - i: e., avant tout le reste d'Israël (Ps. 67:15; Psaume 80:1; Psaume 81:5; Zacharie 10:6).... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_BUT ABISHAI THE SON OF ZERUIAH ANSWERED AND SAID, SHALL NOT SHIMEI BE PUT TO DEATH FOR THIS, BECAUSE HE CURSED THE LORD'S ANOINTED?_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN HE WAS COME TO JERUSALEM TO MEET THE KING, THAT THE KING SAID UNTO HIM, WHEREFORE WENTEST NOT THOU WITH ME, MEPHIBOSHETH?_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan. BARZILLAI LE GALAADITE. Le rang, le grand âge et le dévouement chevaleresque de ce chef de Galaadite gagnent notre respect.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_NOW BARZILLAI WAS A VERY AGED MAN, EVEN FOURSCORE YEARS OLD: AND HE HAD PROVIDED THE KING OF SUSTENANCE WHILE HE LAY AT MAHANAIM; FOR HE WAS A VERY GREAT MAN._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king? PUIS-JE DISCERNER ENTRE LE BIEN E... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_THY SERVANT WILL GO A LITTLE WAY OVER JORDAN WITH THE KING: AND WHY SHOULD THE KING RECOMPENSE IT ME WITH SUCH A REWARD?_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee. ENTERRÉ PAR LA TOMBE DE MON PÈRE ET DE MA... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_AND THE KING ANSWERED, CHIMHAM SHALL GO OVER WITH ME, AND I WILL DO TO HIM THAT WHICH SHALL SEEM GOOD UNTO THEE: AND WHATSOEVER THOU SHALT REQUIRE OF ME, THAT WILL I DO FOR THEE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him: and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel. GUILGAL ... TOUT LE PEUPLE DE JUDA DIRIGEAIT LE ROI, AINSI QUE LA MOITIÉ DU PEUPLE D'ISRAËL. Que ce soit par impatience de passer à autre chose, ou po... [ Continuer la lecture ]