2 Samuel 5:17--8:18
Philistines <06430> [But when.]
fortress <04686> [the hold.]
valley <06010> [the valley.]
asked <07592> [enquired.]
Lord ................. Lord <03068> [And the Lord.]
Baal Perazim ............................. Baal Perazim <01188> [Baal-perazim. that is, The plain of breaches.]
David <01732> [David.]
picked <05375> [burned them. or, took them away.]
up <05927> [came up.]
asked <07592> [enquired.]
circle <05437> [fetch.]
trees <01057> [the mulberry trees.]
The word {becha‹m,} rendered mulberry trees, is rendered by Aquila, [apion,] pear-trees, as the LXX. also render in 1 Ch 14:14, 15; and so the Vulgate in both places has {pyrorum.} The Rabbins, however, believe {bacha} signifies the mulberry-tree; with whom Ursinus agrees. It more probably denotes a large shrub which the Arabs still call {baca,} from its distilling an odoriferous gum, from {bachah} to distil, as tears. Of this opinion is Celsius, who quotes a passage from Abulfadi, who describes it as a balsam shrub, having longish leaves, and bearing a large fruit with an acrid taste. M. Forskal mentions a tree by the name of {b‘ca,} with leaves rather ovated, smooth, entire: its berries are poisonous to the sheep.
sound <06963> [sound.]
decisively <02782> [thou shalt bestir.]
Gibeon <01387> [Geba.]
[Gibeon. Gazer.]
Baalah in Judah <01184> [Baale.]
[Baalah, i.e., Kirjath-jearim.]
name <08034> [whose name, etc. or, at which the name, even the name of the]
Lord of hosts, was called upon.
sits enthroned <03427> [dwelleth.]
loaded <07392> [set, etc. Heb. made the ark of God to ride.]
<01390> [Gibeah. or, the hill.]
with <05973> [accompanying. Heb. with.]
David <01732> [David.]
<01265> [on all manner.]
This place should doubtless be corrected from the parallel place, 1 Ch 13:8; where, instead of {bechol ƒtzey beroshim,} which is literally, "with all trees or wood of fir," we read {bechol “z oovesheerim,} "with all their might, and with songs." This makes a good sense, while the former makes none: the LXX. have the same reading here, [en ischui, kai en odais.]
Nacon <05225> [Nachon's.]
[he is called Chidon. put forth.]
Even the Kohathites, who were appointed to carry the ark, after it was covered by the priests, were forbidden to touch it on pain of death; but Uzzah, who certainly was no priest, probably with some degree of irreverence, having presumed to lay his hand upon the ark, which perhaps was not covered, thus incurred the penalty due to his rashness.
[shook it. or, stumbled.]
he killed ................. God <05221 0430> [God smote.]
negligence <07944> [error. or, rashness.]
angry <02734> [displeased.]
attacked <06555> [made. Heb. broken. Perez-uzzah. that is, The breach of]
Uzzah.
afraid <03372> [afraid.]
ark <0727> [How shall.]
Obed-Edom <05654> [Obed-edom.]
Gittite <01663> [Gittite.]
Lord .............. Lord blessed <01288 03068> [the Lord blessed.]
ark ........... ark <0727> [because.]
David ....................... David ................... David <01732> [So David.]
carried <05375> [when they.]
ox <07794> [oxen.]
dancing <03769> [danced.]
[with all this.]
wearing <02296> [girded.]
David <01732> [David.]
shouting <08643> [with shouting.]
trumpets <06963> [the sound.]
ark <0727> [And as.]
Michal <04324> [Michal.]
despised <0959> [despised.]
brought <0935> [they brought.]
pitched <05186> [pitched. Heb. stretched. offered.]
David <01732> [as soon.]
blessing <01288> [he blessed.]
handed out <02505> [he dealt.]
member .......................... people <05971> [So all the.]
blessing <01288> [bless.]
Michal <04324> [Michal.]
distinguished <03513> [glorious.]
exposed <01540> [uncovered.]
We are only to understand by this expression that David had divested himself of his royal robes, in order to appear humble before the Lord, by assimilating himself to the condition of one of the priests or Levites: for we find that he was "girded with a linen ephod;" and consequently no part of his body was exposed, having only put off his outer garments. The terms uncovered or naked frequently mean no more than this in Scripture.
vulgar <07386> [vain fellows.]
exposed <01540> [shamelessly. or, openly.]
before ....... before ......... father ..... family <06440 01 01004> [before.]
chose <0977> [chose.]
celebrating <07832> [play.]
humiliate <07043> [more vile.]
<05869> [in mine.]
slave girls <0519> [maid-servants. or, handmaids. I be had.]
Michal <04324> [Michal.]
day <03117> [unto the day.]
king <04428> [the king.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
Nathan <05416> [Nathan.]
living in ............ sits <03427> [I dwell.]
ark <0727> [the ark.]
tent <03407> [curtains.]
mind <03824> [all that.]
Lord <03068> [for the.]
night <03915> [that night.]
servant David <05650 01732> [my servant David. Heb. to my servant, to David. Shalt.]
lived <03427> [I have not.]
traveling <01980> [walked.]
tent <0168> [tent.]
moved among <01980> [walked.]
any .... leaders <07626 0259> [any of the tribes.]
[any of the judges.]
Instead of [shbty,] {shivtey,} "tribes," we should probably read, with Houbigant, Drs. Waterland and A. Clarke, and others, [shpty,] {shophtey,} "judges;" which is the reading in the parallel passage. Indeed there is but one letter of difference between them, and letters which might be easily mistaken for each other; the apex under the upper stroke of the [p,] {pay,} being the only mark to distinguish it from the [b,] {baith.} Compare with ver. 11.
care for <07462> [feed.]
took ..... pasture <03947 05116> [I took thee.]
<0310> [following. Heb. after. ruler.]
went <01980> [And I was.]
defeated <03772> [cut off.]
before <06440> [out of thy sight. Heb. from thy face. a great.]
famous <08034> [like unto.]
establish ......... settle <05193 07931> [plant them.]
men <01121> [neither.]
beginning <07223> [as beforetime.]
time <03117> [since.]
relief <05117> [have caused.]
<06213> [he will make.]
time <03117> [And when.]
die <07901> [sleep.]
raise up <06965> [I will set.]
build <01129> [He shall.]
<03559> [I will stablish.]
father <01> [I will be.]
sins <05753> [If he.]
father ............. correct <01 03198> [I will.]
loyal love <02617> [But my.]
removed ...... removed ....... removed <05493> [as I took.]
sat <03427> [sat.]
Lord <0136> [Who am I.]
<06994> [And this.]
spoken <01696> [but thou.]
usual way <08452> [And is this.]
usual way <08452> [manner. Heb. law.]
recognition <03045> [knowest.]
promise <01697> [thy word's.]
purpose <03820> [according.]
great <01431> [Wherefore.]
God <0430> [none.]
unique ... on <0259> [what one.]
went <01980> [went.]
make ... name <07760 08034> [make him.]
great <01420> [great things.]
people ............... nation ...................... people <05971> [thy people.]
nation ...... God .................................... empire .... gods <0430 01471> [nations and their gods.]
made <03559> [confirmed.]
became <01961> [art become.]
reality <06965 05704> [establish it.]
fame <08034> [let thy.]
before <06440> [before thee.]
dynastic <01540> [revealed. Heb. opened the ear.]
build <01129> [I will.]
dynastic <04672> [found.]
words <01697> [thy words.]
willing ... bless ............................ blessed <01288 02974> [let it please thee to bless. Heb. be thou pleased and bless.]
permanently <05769> [for ever.]
Later <0310> [A.M. 2964. B.C. 1040. An. Ex. Is. 451. And after.]
Metheg <04965> [Metheg-ammah. or, the bridle of Ammah.]
[Gath.]
In the parallel passage of Chronicles, we read, "David took Gath and her towns;" and it is probable, that Gath and its districts were called Metheg-ammah in David's time; which, being unusual or becoming obsolete, in the time of the author of the Chronicles, led him thus to explain it.
defeated <05221> [he smote.]
measure ... off ... put <04058> [measured.]
Moabites ............................... Moabites <04124> [And so.]
brought tribute <04503 05375> [brought gifts.]
Hadadezer <01909> [Hadadezer.]
[Hadarezer. Zobah.]
Euphrates <05104> [at the river.]
1,700 .... 20,000 <0505> [from him. or, of his. chariots.]
As 1 Ch 18:4 seven hundred. In the parallel place in Chronicles it is "seven thousand horsemen, a far more probable number. The letter [Zayin,] {zayin,} with a dot upon it stands for seven thousand, and the final letter N–wn,] {noon,} for seven hundred: the great similarity of these letters might easily cause the one to be mistaken for the other, and so produce an error in this place.
David .......... David cut the hamstrings <06131 01732> [David houghed.]
but <03498> [reserved.]
Arameans ................. Arameans <0758> [And when.]
<0935> [came.]
Zobah <06678> [Zobah.]
From 2 Ch 8:3, we learn that Zobah was the district in which Tadmor or Palymyra was situated; and consequently lay between the land of Israel and the Euphrates. The capital was probably the same as the Sabe mentioned by Ptolemy as a city of Arabia Deserta.
garrisons <05333> [garrisons.]
subjects <05650> [became.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
shields <07982> [shields.]
Tebah <0984> [Betah.]
Probably the same as Bathne in Syria, between Bero‘ea and Hierapolis.
[Tibhath, Chun. Berothai.]
Berothai is probably the Barathena of Ptolemy, which he mentions, along with Sabe, as a city of Arabia Deserta, in the confines of the Palmyrenian district.
<03966> [exceeding.]
Toi <08583> [Toi.]
[Tou. Hamath.]
Joram ............................... brought <03141 03027> [Joram.]
[Hadoram. salute him. Heb. ask him of peace.]
blessing ...... victory <01288 03898> [to bless him.]
<0376> [had wars. Heb. was a man of wars. brought with him. Heb. in his hand were.]
King ........................... subdued <04428 03533> [Which.]
Aram <0758> [Syria.]
famous <06213 08034> [gat him.]
defeating <05221> [smiting. Heb. his smiting. the valley of salt.]
18,000 <08083> [being. or, slaying.]
Edom ..... Edomites <0123> [all they.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
Israel <03478> [over all Israel.]
David ...... he guaranteed <06213 01732> [David executed.]
Joab <03097> [Joab.]
Jehoshaphat <03092> [Jehoshaphat.]
secretary <02142> [recorder. or, remembrancer, or writer of chronicles.]
Zadok <06659> [Zadok.]
Seraiah <08304> [and Seraiah.]
[Shavsha. scribe. or, secretary.]
Benaiah <01141> [Benaiah.]
Kerithites <03774> [the Cherethites.]
priests <03548> [chief rulers. or, princes.]
