2 Samuel 5:11
Hiram <02438> [Hiram.]
stonemasons <07023> [masons. Heb. hewers of the stone of the wall. they built.]
2 Samuel 5:1
came <0935> [came.]
blood <06106> [we.]
2 Samuel 5:1-11
came <0935> [came.]
blood <06106> [we.]
leader <03318> [leddest out.]
shepherd <07462> [feed.]
rule <05057> [a captain.]
leaders <02205> [So all.]
made <03772> [made.]
before <06440> [before.]
designated <04886> [anointed.]
thirty <07970> [thirty.]
forty <0705> [forty.]
seven years ............ years <07651 08141> [seven years.]
Jerusalem <03389> [Jerusalem.]
Jebusites <02983> [the Jebusites.]
said ................... saying <0559> [which spake, etc.]
Dr. Kennicott's amended translation is as follows: "Who spake unto David, saying, Thou shalt not come in hither; for the blind and the lame shall drive thee away, by saying, David shall not come in hither." ver. 8. "And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites, and through the subterraneous passage reacheth the lame and the blind, who hate the life of David, (because the blind and the lame said, he shall not come into the house,) shall be chief and captain. So Joab, the son of Zeriah, went up first, and was chief."
turn ... back <05493> [Except.]
said ... David ................. saying David <01732 0559> [thinking, David cannot. or, saying, David shall not, etc.]
Zion <06726> [Zion.]
city <05892> [the same.]
approach <05060> [Whosoever.]
said ............................... said <0559> [he shall be.]
said ............................... said <0559> [Wherefore, etc. or, Because they had said, even the blind and the lame, he shall not come into the house.]
City <05892> [city.]
terrace <04407> [Millo.]
steadily <03212 01980 01419> [went on, and grew great. Heb. went going and growing.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
Hiram <02438> [Hiram.]
stonemasons <07023> [masons. Heb. hewers of the stone of the wall. they built.]
2 Samuel 9:11
Ziba <06717> [Ziba.]
lord <0113> [According.]
2 Samuel 9:2
servant ........................ service <05650> [a servant.]
Ziba .............. Ziba <06717> [was Ziba.]
2 Samuel 2:8-16
Abner <074> [Abner.]
[Saul's host. Heb. the host which was Saul's. Ish-bosheth.]
[Esh-baal. Mahanaim.]
Gilead <01568> [Gilead.]
Geshurites <0805> [Ashurites.]
The LXX. read [ ,] {Thasiri;} and the Vulgate {Gessuri,} "Geshurites;" but it is probable that for {ashuri,} "Ashurites," we should read {ashairi,} "Asherites," or those of the tribe of Asher.
Jezreel <03157> [over Jezreel.]
years ............ two years <08141 08147> [two years.]
Houbigant proposes to read {shesh shanah,} "six years" instead of {shetayim shanim,} "two years," of the text, which he contends is a solecism; for, in pure Hebrew, the words should be {shetayim shanah;} and this is the reading of twenty MSS.; but two is acknowledged by all the versions and MSS. yet collated.
<04557> [time. Heb. number of days.]
Mahanaim <04266> [A.M. 2951. B.C. 1053. An. Ex. Is. 438. Mahanaim.]
Gibeon <01391> [Gibeon.]
Joab <03097> [Joab.]
group <03162> [together. Heb. them together. pool.]
fight before <06440 07832> [play before.]
<07218> [by the head.]
Probably by the beard or hair of the head. Plutarch, in his Apophthegms, informs us, that all things being ready for a battle, Alexander's captains asked him whether he had any thing else to command them. "Nothing," said he, "but that the Macedonians shave their beards." Parmenio wondering what he meant, "Dost thou not know," said he, "that in fight, there is no better hold than the beard?"
Field of Flints <02521> [Helkath-hazzurim. that is, the field of strong men.]
