2 Samuel 15:7-9
four years <0705 08141> [A.M. 2983. B.C. 1021. An. Ex. Is. 470. forty years.]
As David reigned in the whole only forty years, this reading is evidently corrupt, though supported by the commonly printed Vulgate, LXX., and Chaldee. But the Syriac, Arabic, Josephus, Theodoret, the Sixtine edition of the Vulgate, and several MSS. of the same version, read four years; and it is highly probable that {arbÆ’im,} forty, is an error for {arbÆ’,} four, though not supported by any Hebrew MS. yet discovered. Two of those collated by Dr. Kennicott, however, have {yom,} "day," instead of {shanah,} "year," i.e., forty days instead of forty years; but this is not sufficient to outweigh the other authorities.
<03212> [let me go.]
repay <07999> [pay.]
I <05650> [thy servant.]
Geshur <01650> [Geshur.]
serve <05647> [I will serve.]
2 Samuel 15:1
Absalom <053> [A.M. 2980. B.C. 1024. Absalom.]
2 Samuel 21:9-10
before ... Lord <06440 03068> [before the Lord.]
beginning <08462> [in the beginning.]
This happened in Judea about the vernal equinox, or 21st of March.
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.]
John 18:28
they brought <71> [led.]
to ................ into <1519> [unto.]
governor's residence .............. governor's residence <4232> [hall of judgment. or, Pilate's house. early.]
Now ....... They <1161 2532 846> [and they.]
could eat <5315> [eat.]
