2 Samuel 17:12-13
wherever ................................... one <04725 0259> [in some place.]
<05168> [we will light.]
This is a very beautiful and expressive figure. The dew in Palestine, and other warm climates, falls fast, sudden, and heavy; and it falls upon every spot of earth, so that not a blade of grass escapes it. It is therefore no inapt emblem of a numerous and active army; and it was, perhaps, for this reason that the Romans called their light armed forces {rorarii.}
take up ropes <05375 02256> [bring ropes.]
In the same manner the king of Maturan, in Java, proposed pulling down a tower which the Dutch had built, by making his people and elephants pull at a number of chains, and ropes of cocoa-nut bark, thrown around it.
pebble <01571 06872> [one small.]
2 Samuel 17:2
exhausted <03023> [weary.]
kill <05221> [I will smite.]
2 Samuel 19:23-24
die <04191> [Thou shalt.]
oath <07650> [sware.]
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.
Isaiah 10:13-14
says <0559> [For he saith.]
invaded <05493> [I have removed.]
storehouses <08154> [robbed.]
mighty <047> [a valiant man. or, many people.]
hand <03027> [And my.]
chirping <06850> [peeped.]
That is, chirped, from the Latin {pipio.} We still use the term pipe to express the note of the bullfinch.
Isaiah 37:24-25
messengers <05650> [thy servants. Heb. the hand of they servants.]
many <07230> [By the.]
tall cedars ..... evergreens <0730 01265 06967> [tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof. Heb. tallness of the cedars thereof and the choice of the fir trees thereof.]
<03760> [of his Carmel. or, and his fruitful field.]
soles <03709> [with the sole.]
Egypt <04693> [besieged. or, fenced and closed.]
