2 Samuel 1:12
2 Samuel 2:24
2 Samuel 15:24
Zadok <06659> [Zadok.]
carrying <05375> [bearing.]
2 Samuel 16:5
Bahurim <0980> [Bahurim.]
This place is supposed to be the same as Almon, (Jos 21:18,) and Almeth, (1 Ch 6:60,) a city of Benjamin, north of Jerusalem, and apparently not far from Olivet.
named <08034> [whose name.]
extended ........ came out <03318> [he came, etc. or, he still came forth and cursed. cursed.]
2 Samuel 18:18
set up <05324> [reared up.]
King's <04428> [the king's.]
son <01121> [I have no son.]
He ............. known <07121> [he called.]
Absalom ......................................... Absalom's Memorial <053 03027> [Absalom's place.]
Josephus says there was in his time, about two furlongs from Jerusalem, a marble pillar called Absalom's hand, as it is in the Hebrew, (See note on 1 Sa 15:12;) and there is one shown to the present day, in the valley of Jehoshaphat, which, though comparatively a modern structure, probably occupies the site of the original one set up by Absalom.
2 Samuel 19:24
Mephibosheth <04648> [Mephibosheth.]
feet ... trimmed <06213 07272> [dressed his feet.]
Literally, made his feet, which seems to mean washing the feet paring the nails, and perhaps anointing or otherwise perfuming them, if not tinging the nails with henna; see Note on De 21:12. Sir John Chardin, in his MS. note on this place, informs us, that it is customary in the East to have as much care of the feet as the hands; and that their barbers cut and adjust the nails with a proper instrument, because they often go barefoot. The nails of the toes of the mummies inspected in London in 1763, of which an account is given in the Philosophical Transactions for 1764, seem to have been tinged with some reddish colour.
trimmed <06213> [trimmed.]
Literally, made his beard, which may mean, combing, curling, and perfuming it. But Mr. Morier says that they almost universally dye the beard black, by successive layers of a paste made of henna, and another made of the leaf of the indigo: the first tinging with an orange colour, and the next with a dark bottle green, which becomes jet black when exposed to the air for twenty-four hours.
2 Samuel 20:3
placed <05414> [and put.]
The confinement and retired maintenance of these women was the only measure which in justice and prudence could be adopted. In China, when an emperor dies, all his women are removed to an edifice called the palace of chastity, situated within the palace, in which they are shut up for the remainder of their lives.
confinement <04931> [ward. Heb. an house of ward.]
confinement <06887> [shut. Heb. bound. living in widowhood. Heb. in widowhood of life.]
2 Samuel 21:10
Rizpah <07532> [Rizpah.]
took sackcloth <03947 08242> [took sackcloth.]
beginning <08462> [from the.]
rain <04325> [until water.]
Some suppose that this means a providential supply of rain, in order to remove the famine; but from the manner in which it is introduced, it seems to denote the autumnal rains, which commence about October. For five months did this broken-hearted woman watch by the bodies of her sons!
birds <05775> [the birds.]
2 Samuel 23:10
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
army <05971> [and the people.]
