2 Samuel 6:18
David <01732> [as soon.]
blessing <01288> [he blessed.]
2 Samuel 8:15
Israel <03478> [over all Israel.]
David ...... he guaranteed <06213 01732> [David executed.]
2 Samuel 10:10
2 Samuel 10:12-13
strong .... bravely <02388> [Be of good.]
This is a very animating address, and equal to any thing of the kind in ancient or modern times. Ye fight {pro aris et focis;} for every good, sacred and civil; for God, for your families, and for your countries. Such harangues, especially in very trying circumstances, are very natural, and may perhaps be found in the records of every nation. Several instances might be quoted from Roman and Grecian history; but few are more remarkable than that of Tyrtaeus, the lame Athenian poet, to whom the command of the army was given in one of the Messenian wars. The Spartans had at that time suffered great losses, and all their stratagems proved ineffectual, so that they began to despair of success; when the poet, by his lectures on honour and courage, delivered in moving verse to the army, ravished them to such a degree with the thoughts of dying for their country, that, rushing on with a furious transport to meet their enemies, they gave them an entire overthrow, and by one decisive battle brought the war to a happy conclusion.
strong .... bravely <02388> [play.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
fled <05127> [they fled.]
2 Samuel 11:7
Joab ...... doing ....... going <07965 03097> [how Joab did. Heb. of the peace of Joab.]
2 Samuel 12:29
2 Samuel 16:14-15
[there.]
Absalom <053> [Absalom.]
2 Samuel 18:1
assembled <06485> [numbered.]
leaders ... thousands ... leaders <08269 0505> [captains of thousands.]
2 Samuel 18:6
forest ... Ephraim <0669 03293> [wood of Ephraim.]
The wood of Ephraim was evidently beyond Jordan, and apparently not far from Mahanaim; and it is supposed to be the place where the Ephraimites were slain by Jephthah.
