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2 Samuel 18:1 open_in_new
numbered. mustered, or inspected. David, was now fifty-six.
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2 Samuel 18:3 open_in_new
succour us out of the city. come to us out of the city with succour by prayer and counsel.
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2 Samuel 18:5 open_in_new
heard. this explains 2 Samuel 18:12
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2 Samuel 18:6 open_in_new
wood of Ephraim. Compare Joshua 17:15-18
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2 Samuel 18:8 open_in_new
the face. Figure of speech Pleonasm, with Prosopopceia. App-6. devoured. Hebrew "multiplied to devour", to emphasise the great number. Figure of speech Prosopopaia. App-6.
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2 Samuel 18:9 open_in_new
taken up. The tradition about his "hair" comes from Josephus 2 Samuel 10:2).
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2 Samuel 18:10 open_in_new
man. Hebrew. 'ish. App-14.
Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.
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2 Samuel 18:11 open_in_new
girdle. A common present, made of silk, linen, or leather, and worked sometimes in gold. Used for fastening up loose garments.
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2 Samuel 18:12 open_in_new
our hearing. See 2 Samuel 18:5
Beware that none touch. Watch any one who (would touch) the, &c. After "Watch", Septuagint, Aramaean, Syriac, and Vulgate add "for my sake", as in 2 Samuel 18:5.
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2 Samuel 18:13 open_in_new
life. soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.
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2 Samuel 18:14 open_in_new
darts. clubs. Hebrew. shebet,. club with a long spike at the end. Still used in Palestine.
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2 Samuel 18:15 open_in_new
armour. weapons.
slew him. David being fifty-seven years old; Absalom, twenty-four; Solomon, seven.
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2 Samuel 18:17 open_in_new
heap of stones. Not. memorial to honour but to warn (Joshua 7:26; Joshua 8:29). See note on 2 Samuel 18:18.
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2 Samuel 18:18 open_in_new
pillar. Marks ambition's aim, while the heap of stones (2 Samuel 18:17) marks ambition's end.
no son. Compare 2 Samuel 14:27. Therefore built, before the first-born; or after his sons (2 Samuel 14:27) were dead. place-monument. About. quarter of. mile east of Jerusalem, in the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
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2 Samuel 18:19 open_in_new
the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
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2 Samuel 18:24 open_in_new
between the two gates. The outer and inner gates of the city wall.
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2 Samuel 18:25 open_in_new
If he be alone. Otherwise it would be flight.
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2 Samuel 18:26 open_in_new
porter. gatekeeper. No gates without the "Bawab "or gatekeeper. Compare 2 Kings 7:17; 1 Chronicles 9:21.
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2 Samuel 18:27 open_in_new
good. Compare 1 Kings 1:42.
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2 Samuel 18:28 open_in_new
Blessed be the LORD thy God. Some codices, with three early printed editions, reverse the order, thus changing the emphasis, and read: "Jehovah thy God be blessed".
God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.
men. Hebrew. 'enosh. App-14.
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2 Samuel 18:29 open_in_new
and. even.
what it was. what [it meant].
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2 Samuel 18:32 open_in_new
be as that young man. Figure of speech Euphemism. App-6.
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2 Samuel 18:33 open_in_new
my son... my son. Figure of speech Epizeuxis. App-6. for. instead of.