2 Samuel 22:33
refuge <04581> [strength.]
removes <05425> [maketh. Heb. riddeth, or looseth. my way.]
obstacles <08549> [perfect.]
2 Samuel 22:22
obeyed <08104> [I have kept.]
commands <01870> [the ways.]
rebelled <07561> [have not.]
2 Samuel 22:31
manner <01870> [his way.]
promise <0565> [the word.]
reliable <06884> [tried. or, refined. a buckler.]
2 Samuel 13:30
2 Samuel 13:34
Absalom fled <01272 053> [Absalom fled.]
2 Samuel 16:13
curses <07043> [cursed.]
dirt <06083 06080> [cast dust. Heb. dusted him with dust.]
It was an ancient custom, in those warm and arid countries, to lay the dust before a person of distinction, by sprinkling the ground with water. Dr. Pococke and the consul were treated with this respect when they entered Cairo. The same custom is alluded to in the well-known fable of Ph‘drus, in which a slave is represented going before Augustus and officiously laying the dust. To throw dust in the air while a person was passing was therefore an act of great disrespect; to do so before a sovereign prince, an indecent outrage. But it is probable that Shimei meant more than disrespect and outrage to this afflicted king. Sir John Chardin informs us, that in the East, in general, those who demand justice against a criminal throw dust upon him, signifying that he ought to be put in the grave: and hence the common imprecation among the Turks and Persians, "Be covered with earth," or, "Earth be upon thy head."
2 Samuel 18:23
passed ... Cushite <03569 05674> [overran Cushi.]
2 Samuel 2:24
2 Samuel 4:7
head Taking ... head <07218 03947> [took his head.]
When those difficulties dispirit us which should rather invigorate us and sharpen our endeavours, we betray a carelessness of character which is soon taken advantage of by our more watchful neighbours. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty and ruin. The idle soul is an easy prey to the destroyer.
2 Samuel 11:10
2 Samuel 15:23
land <0776> [all the country.]
Valley <05158> [the brook.]
The brook Kidron, which is but a few paces broad, runs along the valley of Jehoshaphat, east of Jerusalem, to the south-west corner of the city, and then, turning to the south-east, empties itself into the Dead Sea. Like the Ilissus, it is dry at least nine months in the year, being only furnished with water in the winter, and after heavy rains: its bed is narrow and deep, which indicates that it must formerly have been the channel for waters which have found some other, and probably subterraneous course.
Kidron <06939> [Kidron.]
[Cedron. the wilderness.]
2 Samuel 15:2
get up <07925> [rose up.]
bring <0935> [came. Heb. to come.]
