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Selected Verse: 2 Samuel 16:9 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Sa 16:9 |
Strong Concordance |
Then said [0559] Abishai [052] the son [01121] of Zeruiah [06870] unto the king [04428], Why should this dead [04191] dog [03611] curse [07043] my lord [0113] the king [04428]? let me go over [05674], I pray thee, and take off [05493] his head [07218]. |
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King James |
Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
This dead dog - See the marginal reference and Sa2 9:8 note.
Go over - The ravine, possibly with a stream of water Sa2 17:20, which lay between them and Shimei. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| Abishai wanted to put an end to this cursing (on the expression "dead dog," see Sa2 9:8). "Let me go," said he to David, "and take away his head," i.e., chop off his head. But David replied, "What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah?" Joab probably joined with Abishai. The formula "what to me and you?" signifies that a person did not wish to have anything in common with the feelings and views of another (cf. Kg1 17:18; Jos 22:24; and τὶ ἐμοὶ καὶ σοί, Joh 2:4. For the thing itself, comp. Luk 9:52-56). "If he curses, and if Jehovah hath said to him, Curse David, who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so?" For יה וכי יקלּל כּי (Chethib), the Masoretes give us the Keri, יה כּי יקלּל כּה, "so let him curse, for Jehovah," etc. This thought lies at the foundation of the rendering adopted by the lxx, who have inserted, by way of explanation, καὶ ἄφετε αὐτὸν καὶ: so let him go, and so may he curse. The Vulgate is just the same: dimittite eum ut maledicat. This interpolation is taken from Sa2 16:11, and, like the Keri, is nothing more than a conjecture, which was adopted simply because כּי was taken as a causal particle, and then offence was taken at וכי. But כּי signifies if, quando, in this passage, and the ו before the following וּמי introduces the apodosis. |
20 And when Absalom's [053] servants [05650] came [0935] to the woman [0802] to the house [01004], they said [0559], Where is Ahimaaz [0290] and Jonathan [03083]? And the woman [0802] said [0559] unto them, They be gone over [05674] the brook [04323] of water [04325]. And when they had sought [01245] and could not find [04672] them, they returned [07725] to Jerusalem [03389].
8 And he bowed [07812] himself, and said [0559], What is thy servant [05650], that thou shouldest look [06437] upon such a dead [04191] dog [03611] as I am?
11 And David [01732] said [0559] to Abishai [052], and to all his servants [05650], Behold, my son [01121], which came forth [03318] of my bowels [04578], seeketh [01245] my life [05315]: how much more now may this Benjamite [01145] do it? let him alone [03240], and let him curse [07043]; for the LORD [03068] hath bidden [0559] him.
52 And [2532] sent [649] messengers [32] before [4253] his [846] face [4383]: and [2532] they went [4198], and entered [1525] into [1519] a village [2968] of the Samaritans [4541], to [5620] make ready [2090] for him [846].
53 And [2532] they did [1209] not [3756] receive [1209] him [846], because [3754] his [846] face [4383] was [2258] as though he would go [4198] to [1519] Jerusalem [2419].
54 And [1161] when his [846] disciples [3101] James [2385] and [2532] John [2491] saw [1492] this, they said [2036], Lord [2962], wilt thou [2309] that we command [2036] fire [4442] to come down [2597] from [575] heaven [3772], and [2532] consume [355] them [846], even [2532] as [5613] Elias [2243] did [4160]?
55 But [1161] he turned [4762], and rebuked [2008] them [846], and [2532] said [2036], Ye know [1492] not [3756] what manner [3634] of spirit [4151] ye [5210] are of [2075].
56 For [1063] the Son [5207] of man [444] is [2064] not [3756] come [2064] to destroy [622] men's [444] lives [5590], but [235] to save [4982] them. And [2532] they went [4198] to [1519] another [2087] village [2968].
4 Jesus [2424] saith [3004] unto her [846], Woman [1135], what [5101] have I [1698] to do with [2532] thee [4671]? mine [3450] hour [5610] is [2240] not yet [3768] come [2240].
24 And if we have not rather done [06213] it for fear [01674] of this thing [01697], saying [0559], In time to come [04279] your children [01121] might speak [0559] unto our children [01121], saying [0559], What have ye to do with the LORD [03068] God [0430] of Israel [03478]?
18 And she said [0559] unto Elijah [0452], What have I to do with thee, O thou man [0376] of God [0430]? art thou come [0935] unto me to call [02142] my sin [05771] to remembrance [02142], and to slay [04191] my son [01121]?
8 And he bowed [07812] himself, and said [0559], What is thy servant [05650], that thou shouldest look [06437] upon such a dead [04191] dog [03611] as I am?