2 Samuel 3:14
Ish-bosheth <0378> [Ish-bosheth.]
[and hundred.]
2 Samuel 4:10
told <05046> [one.]
<05869> [thinking, etc. Heb. he was in his own eyes, as a bringer, etc. who thought, etc. or, which was the reward I gave him for his tidings.]
2 Samuel 12:11
bring <06965> [I will raise.]
take <03947> [I will take.]
That is, in the course of my providence I will permit this to be done. Such phrases in Scripture do not mean that God either does or can do evil himself; but only that he permits such evil to be done as he foresaw would be done, and which, had he pleased, he might have prevented.
2 Samuel 16:8
punished <07725> [returned.]
blood .................................... bloodshed <01818> [the blood.]
blood ........... rule ................ Disaster ........... bloodshed <04427 07451 01818> [thou, etc. or, thee in thy evil.]
2 Samuel 18:9
head <07218> [his head.]
Riding furiously under the thick boughs of a great oak, which hung low and had never been cropped, either the twisted branches, or some low forked bough of the tree, caught him by the neck, or, as some think, by the loops into which his long hair had been pinned, which had been so much his pride, and was now justly made a halter for him. He may have hung so low from the bough, in consequence of the length of his hair, that he could not use his hands to help himself, or so entangled that his hands were bound, so that the more he struggled the more he was embarrassed. This set him up as a fair mark to the servants of David; and although David would have spared his rebellious son, if his orders had been executed, yet he could not turn the sword of Divine justice, in executing the just, righteous sentence of death on this traitorous son.
suspended <05414> [taken up.]
2 Samuel 18:11
2 Samuel 18:33
son .... son ... son .............. son ... son <01121> [O my son.]
died <04191> [would God.]
2 Samuel 20:3
placed <05414> [and put.]
The confinement and retired maintenance of these women was the only measure which in justice and prudence could be adopted. In China, when an emperor dies, all his women are removed to an edifice called the palace of chastity, situated within the palace, in which they are shut up for the remainder of their lives.
confinement <04931> [ward. Heb. an house of ward.]
confinement <06887> [shut. Heb. bound. living in widowhood. Heb. in widowhood of life.]
2 Samuel 21:9-10
before ... Lord <06440 03068> [before the Lord.]
beginning <08462> [in the beginning.]
This happened in Judea about the vernal equinox, or 21st of March.
Rizpah <07532> [Rizpah.]
took sackcloth <03947 08242> [took sackcloth.]
beginning <08462> [from the.]
rain <04325> [until water.]
Some suppose that this means a providential supply of rain, in order to remove the famine; but from the manner in which it is introduced, it seems to denote the autumnal rains, which commence about October. For five months did this broken-hearted woman watch by the bodies of her sons!
birds <05775> [the birds.]
2 Samuel 24:9
800,000 ......... 500,000 <08083 03967 0505> [eight hundred thousand.]
