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Selected Verse: 2 Samuel 3:16 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Sa 3:16 |
King James |
And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned. |
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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Bahurim - Best known as the residence of Shimei, and as the place where Jonathan and Ahimaaz were concealed in a well on the occasion of David's flight from Absalom Sa2 16:5; Sa2 17:18. It seems to have been situated in the southern border of the tribe of Benjamin, and on the route from Jerusalem to the Jordan fords, since Phaltiel came from Mahanaim Sa2 2:8. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Weeping behind her - If genuine affection did not still subsist between David and Michal, it was a pity to have taken her from Phaltiel, who had her to wife from the conjoint authority of her father and her king.
Nevertheless David had a legal right to her, as she had never been divorced, for she was taken from him by the hand of violence. |
8 But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
18 Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.
5 And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.