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2 Samuel 5:1 open_in_new
Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos.App-6.
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2 Samuel 5:2 open_in_new
the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
feed. feed as. shepherd.
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2 Samuel 5:3 open_in_new
made. league. solemnised. covenant. anointed David. See note on 1 Samuel 16:13.
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2 Samuel 5:6 open_in_new
men. Hebrew. 'enosh. App-14.
saying. What they said must be rendered thus "Thou shalt not come in hither, for the blind and the lame shall drive thee away [by saying]`David shall not come in hither.. "
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2 Samuel 5:7 open_in_new
the strong hold of Zion: i.e. the hill of Ophel, immediately south of Moriah.
Zion. First occurrence. Occurs 154 times in O.T. (7. 22, App-10); used later (especially in prophecy) of the whole city. See App-68.
the City of David. Which is on Jebus, therefore, and not on the west side. First occurrence. Occurs forty times in O.T. Used of Zion five times (2Sa 5:7, 2 Samuel 5:9. 1Ki 8:1. 1 Chronicles 11:5; 2 Chronicles 5:2).
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2 Samuel 5:8 open_in_new
to the gutter. by (or through) the zinnor,. rock-cut passage from the lower Gihon or En-Rogel (now the Virgin's Fount on east of Ophel), leading up into the city and supplying water. Discovered by Sir Charles Warren. Compare note on Nehemiah 2:13, &c.
soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.
he shall be chief and captain. These words are supplied from 1 Chronicles 11:6, which tells that Joab got up the zinnor first. Probably revealed to him (or to David) by Araunah, who (though. Jebusite) was not slain, but is found, later on, owning property quite near (2 Samuel 24:16). Josephus says Araunah was. friend of David's.
Wherefore. Because.
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2 Samuel 5:9 open_in_new
fort. the "strong hold" of 2 Samuel 5:7. Citadel.
round about. the wall, which was continued by Solomon (1 Kings 9:15; 1 Kings 9:24; 1 Kings 11:27), afterward by Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 32:5), and extended by Manasseh (2 Chronicles 33:14).
Millo. the Millo, or the filling up: i.e. of the valley between Moriah and Jebus.
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2 Samuel 5:10 open_in_new
went on. went on and on.
the LORD God of hosts. Jehovah Elohim zebaioth. App-4. See note on 1 Samuel 1:3.
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2 Samuel 5:11 open_in_new
Hiram. Not the Hiram of 1 Kings 9:11, which was sixty years later. Josephus says he was his father. Compare 2 Chronicles 2:13; 1 Kings 5:1.
Tyre. Israel had no war with Phoenicians. Asher failed to expel them (Judges 1:31).
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2 Samuel 5:13 open_in_new
out of. Perhaps this should read "into", as in 1 Chronicles 14:3. But both accounts are independent and complementary.
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2 Samuel 5:16 open_in_new
Eliada. Another name, Beeliada. See note on 1 Chronicles 14:7.
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2 Samuel 5:17 open_in_new
seek. Compare 1 Samuel 26:2.
hold. Probably Adullam. 1 Samuel 22:1. Not Zion, because he went "down "to it.
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2 Samuel 5:18 open_in_new
Rephaim. The descendants of the Nephilim through one "Rapha". See App-23 and App-25. Compare 1 Chronicles 11:15.
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2 Samuel 5:19 open_in_new
the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. (App-4.). See note on Chron. 2 Samuel 14:10.
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2 Samuel 5:20 open_in_new
broken forth. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.
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2 Samuel 5:25 open_in_new
as. according as.
Geba. Abbreviation for "Gibeon". Compare Septuagint, and 1 Chronicles 14:16.