2 Samuel 20:16-26
Listen .... words .......... listening <01697 08085> [Hear the words.]
would <01696> [They were wont, etc. or, They plainly spake in the beginning, saying, Surely they will ask of Abel, and so make an end.]
peaceful <07999> [peaceable.]
important <0517> [a mother.]
swallow up <01104> [swallow.]
inheritance <05159> [the inheritance.]
Get serious <02486> [Far be it.]
swallow up <01104> [that I should.]
man <0376> [a man.]
named <08034> [by name. Heb. by his name. lifted.]
head <07218> [his head.]
wise advice <02451> [in her wisdom.]
blew <08628> [he blew.]
dispersed <06327> [retired. Heb. were scattered. And Joab.]
Joab <03097> [Now Joab.]
Benaiah <01141> [and Benaiah.]
Adoniram <0151> [Adoram.]
secretary <02142> [recorder. or, remembrancer.]
<07864> [Sheva.]
[Shavsha.]
Ira <05896> [Ira.]
[Ithrite. Jairite.]
priest <03548> [chief ruler. or, prince.]
The Hebrew is {cohen ledawid,} which might be rendered, a priest of David; and so the Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac, and Arabic. The Chaldee has {rav,} a chief or prince: probably he was a kind of domestic chaplain or seer to the king. # 24:11 2Ch 35:15
