2 Samuel 18:19--19:7
Ahimaaz <0290> [Ahimaaz.]
vindicated <08199 03027> [avenged him. Heb. judged him from the hand, etc.]
news ..... bear good news <01309 01319> [bear tidings. Heb. be a man of tidings.]
king's <04428> [because.]
Whatever ............ Why <04100> [howsoever. Heb. be what may. ready. or, convenient.]
passed ... Cushite <03569 05674> [overran Cushi.]
<08147> [between.]
watchman <06822> [the watchman.]
[Methinketh. Heb. I see.]
good ....... good <02896> [He is a good.]
Greetings <07965> [All is well. or, Peace be to thee. Heb. Peace. he fell down upon his face.]
This act was not only in reverence to the king, but in humble adoration of God, whose name he praises for this victory. The more our hearts are fixed and enlarged, in thanksgiving to God for our mercies, the better disposed we shall be to bear with patience the afflictions mixed with them.
praised <01288> [Blessed.]
defeated <05462> [delivered up. Heb. shut up.]
young man Absalom <05288 053 07965> [Is the young man Absalom safe? Heb. is there peace to, etc.]
I saw a great.
receive the good news <01319> [Tidings. Heb. Tidings is brought. the Lord.]
Cushi was the man Joab ordered to carry the tidings to David. He was an Ethiopian, as his name signifies, and some think he was so by birth--a black, who waited on Joab, probably one of the ten who had helped to dispatch Absalom; though it was dangerous for one of those to bring the news to David, lest his fate should be the same with theirs that reported the death of Saul and Ishbosheth to him.
enemies <0341> [The enemies.]
Thus Cushi obliquely and slowly informs David of the death of his son Absalom.
son .... son ... son .............. son ... son <01121> [O my son.]
died <04191> [would God.]
victory <08668> [victory. Heb. salvation, or, deliverance. turned.]
city <05892> [into the city.]
stole .............. steal <01589> [steal.]
covered <03813> [covered.]
son ..... son ... son <01121> [O my son.]
It is allowed by competent critics that the lamentation of David over his son, of which this forms a part, is exceedingly pathetic; and Calmet properly remarks, that the frequent repetition of the name of the deceased is common in the language of lamentation.
embarrassed <03001> [Thou hast.]
Every one must admit that David's immoderate grief for his rebellious son was imprudent, and that Joab's firm and sensible reproof was necessary to arouse him to a sense of his duty to his people: but, in his manner, Joab far exceeded the bounds of that reverence which a servant owes to his master, or a subject to his prince.
saved <04422> [saved.]
love ....... friends <0157> [In that, etc. Heb. By loving, etc. thou regardest, etc.]
Heb. princes or servants are not to thee. then it had.
encouragement .... servants <03820 05650> [comfortably unto thy. Heb. to the heart of thy.]
stay <03885> [there.]
disaster ......... disaster <07451> [all the evil.]
