2 Samuel 6:22

6:22

humiliate <07043> [more vile.]

<05869> [in mine.]

slave girls <0519> [maid-servants. or, handmaids. I be had.]

2 Samuel 23:19

23:19

<0935> [he attained.]

2 Samuel 23:23

23:23

honor <03513> [more honourable. or, honourable among the thirty.]

bodyguard <04928> [over his guard. or, over his council. Heb. at his command.]

2 Samuel 6:20

6:20

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.]

2 Samuel 10:3

10:3

think David ................. David <05869 01732> [Thinkest thou that David doth. Heb. In thine eyes doth]

David. not.

2 Samuel 13:25

13:25

pressed <06555> [pressed.]

blessed <01288> [blessed.]

2 Samuel 14:26

14:26

shave ............. shave ............ shave <01548> [when he polled.]

three pounds <08255 03967> [two hundred shekels.]

If the shekel be allowed to mean the common shekel, the amount will be utterly incredible; for Josephus says that "two hundred shekels make five {min‘:}" and the {mina,} he says, "weighs two pounds and a half;" which calculation makes Absalom's hair weigh twelve pounds and a half! But it is probable that the king's shekel was that which Epiphanius and Hesychius say was the fourth part of an ounce, half a {stater,} or two drachms: the whole amount, therefore, of the 200 shekels is about 50 ounces, which make 4 lb. 2 oz. troy weight, or 3 lb. 2 oz. avoirdupois. This need not be accounted incredible, especially as abundance of oil and ointment was used by the ancients in dressing their heads. Josephus informs us, that the Jews also put gold dust in their hair.