2 Samuel 5:1--6:23
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.]
David <01732> [David.]
people <05971> [his people.]
names <08034> [the names.]
[Shammuah. or, Shimea.]
Nathan <05416> [Nathan.]
Solomon <08010> [Solomon.]
Elishua <0474> [Elishua. or, Elishama.]
Eliada <0450> [Eliada. or, Beeliada.]
Eliphelet <0467> [Eliphalet. Eliphelet.]
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.]
