2 Samuel 24:18
Gad <01410> [Gad.]
threshing floor <01637> [threshing floor.]
These, among the ancient Jews, were only round, level plats of ground in the open air, as they are to this day in the East, where the corn was trodden out by oxen.
Araunah <0728> [Araunah. Heb. Araniah.]
2 Samuel 24:1
again <03254> [A.M. 2987. B.C. 1017. An. Ex. Is. 474. again.]
incited <05496> [he.]
This verse, when read without reference to any other part of the word of God, is very difficult to understand, and has been used by those who desire to undermine the justice of God, to shew that he sought occasion to punish--that he incited David to sin; and when he had so incited him, gave to him the dreadful alternative of choosing one of three scourges by which his people were to be cut off. On the face of the passage these thoughts naturally arise, because "the Lord" is the antecedent to the pronoun "he,"--He moved David. But to those who "search the Scriptures," this exceedingly difficult passage receives a wonderful elucidation, By referring to 1 Ch 21:1, the reader will there find that Satan was the mover, and that the Lord most righteously punished David for the display of pride he had manifested. Oh! that Christians, who sometimes have their minds harassed with doubts, would remember the promise, that what they know not now they shall know hereafter; and if no other instance of elucidation than this passage occurred to them to remove their doubts, let this be a means of stirring them up to dig deeper than ever into the inexhaustible mines of the Inspired Word.
incited <05496> [moved.]
count <03212 04487> [Go, number.]
2 Samuel 21:15
Philistines .............. Philistines <06430> [the Philistines.]
David ........... David ... exhausted <01732 05774> [and David waxed faint.]
2 Samuel 21:2
Gibeonites ........ Gibeonites <01393> [now the.]
Amorites <0567> [the Amorites.]
The Gibeonites were Hivites, not Amorites, as appears from Jos 6:19; but Amorites is a name often given to the Canaanites in general.
zeal <07065> [in his zeal.]
2 Samuel 3:1
war ... prolonged <04421 0752> [long war.]
house ...... house ........... house <01004> [between.]
David David ... becoming steadily ......... becoming increasingly <01980 01732> [David waxed.]
