2 Samuel 9:12
son <01121> [son.]
[Micah. servants.]
2 Samuel 9:6
Mephibosheth ....................... Mephibosheth <04648> [Mephibosheth.]
[called Meribbaal. he fell.]
2 Samuel 9:13
guest <0398> [he did eat.]
crippled <06455> [was lame.]
2 Samuel 16:4
Mephibosheth's <04648> [Behold.]
bow ...... find <07812 04672> [I humbly beseech thee. Heb. I do obeisance.]
2 Samuel 19:25
go <01980> [Wherefore.]
2 Samuel 19:30
<03947> [Yea.]
2 Samuel 4:4
Jonathan ...................... Jonathan <03083> [Jonathan.]
news <08052> [when the tidings.]
Mephibosheth <04648> [Mephibosheth.]
[Meribbaal.]
2 Samuel 9:10-11
food ....... eat <0398 03899> [shall eat bread.]
The eating at courts was of two kinds; the one public and ceremonious, the other private. Sir John Chardin understands those passages which speak of a right to eat at the royal table, as pointing out a right to a seat there, when the repast was public and solemn. So in a MS. Note on 1 Ki 2:7, he tells us that it was to be understood of the {majilis,} (the term for an assembly of lords, or a public feast,) and not of the daily and ordinary repast. Hence, though Mephibosheth was to eat at all public times at the king's table, yet he would want the produce of his lands for food at other times, which it was necessary for Ziba to understand.
Ziba <06717> [Ziba.]
lord <0113> [According.]
2 Samuel 16:1
When .... gone a short <05674 04592> [little past.]
Ziba <06717> [Ziba.]
couple <06776> [with a couple.]
summer fruit <07019> [summer.]
These were probably pumpkins, cucumbers, or water-melons; the two latter being extensively used in the East to refresh travellers in the burning heat of the summer; and probably, as Mr. Harmer supposes, called summer fruits on this very account.
container <05035> [a bottle.]
2 Samuel 19:24
Mephibosheth <04648> [Mephibosheth.]
feet ... trimmed <06213 07272> [dressed his feet.]
Literally, made his feet, which seems to mean washing the feet paring the nails, and perhaps anointing or otherwise perfuming them, if not tinging the nails with henna; see Note on De 21:12. Sir John Chardin, in his MS. note on this place, informs us, that it is customary in the East to have as much care of the feet as the hands; and that their barbers cut and adjust the nails with a proper instrument, because they often go barefoot. The nails of the toes of the mummies inspected in London in 1763, of which an account is given in the Philosophical Transactions for 1764, seem to have been tinged with some reddish colour.
trimmed <06213> [trimmed.]
Literally, made his beard, which may mean, combing, curling, and perfuming it. But Mr. Morier says that they almost universally dye the beard black, by successive layers of a paste made of henna, and another made of the leaf of the indigo: the first tinging with an orange colour, and the next with a dark bottle green, which becomes jet black when exposed to the air for twenty-four hours.
2 Samuel 21:7-8
Mephibosheth <04648> [Mephibosheth.]
Lord's <03068> [because.]
Rizpah <07532> [Rizpah.]
sons .............. five sons ............. son <01121 02568> [and the five sons.]
This Adriel did not marry Michal, Saul's younger daughter, but Merab, 1 Sa 18:19; Michael being married to David, and afterwards to Phaltiel; though it is here said she bore {(yaledah,} not brought up, as falsely rendered, five sons to Adriel. Two of Dr. Kennicott's MSS., however, have Merab, instead of Michal; the Syriac and Arabic have Nadab; and the Chaldee renders the passage thus: "And the five sons of Merab which Michal the daughter of Saul brought up, which she brought forth to Adriel the son of Barzillai."
Merab <04324> [Michal. or, Michal's sister.]
born ............... born ... Adriel <03205 05741> [brought up for. Heb. bare to.]
