2 Samuel 12:18
seventh day <03117 07637> [seventh day. vex. Heb. do hurt to.]
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 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.]
