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Selected Verse: 2 Samuel 16:14 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Sa 16:14 |
Strong Concordance |
And the king [04428], and all the people [05971] that were with him, came [0935] weary [05889], and refreshed [05314] themselves there. |
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King James |
And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves there. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| refreshed themselves there--that is, in the city of Bahurim. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
The king came with his train, pursued in this manner, to Ayephim, and refreshed himself there. The context requires that Ayephim should be taken as the name of a place. If it were an appellative, signifying weary, there would be no information as to the place to which David came, and to which the word שׁם (there) distinctly refers. Bahurim cannot be the place alluded to, for the simple reason that, according to Sa2 17:18, the place where David rested was a considerable distance beyond Bahurim, towards the Jordan, as we may see from the fact that it is stated there that the priests' sons, who were sent to carry information to David of what was occurring in Jerusalem, hid themselves in a well at Bahurim from the officers who were following them, and consequently had to go still further in order to convey the news to David; so that it is out of the question to supply this name from Sa2 16:5. It is true that we never meet with the name Ayephim again; but this applies to many other places whose existence is not called in question.
(Note: The meaning of the word, wearied or weariness, does not warrant any conjectures, even though they should be more felicitous than that of Bttcher, who proposes to alter Ayephim into Ephraim, and assumes that there was a place of this name near Mahanaim, though without reflecting that the place where David rested was on this side of the Jordan, and somewhere near to Gilgal or Jericho (Sa2 17:16. and Sa2 17:22).) |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Came - To the city of Bahurim. |
22 Then David [01732] arose [06965], and all the people [05971] that were with him, and they passed over [05674] Jordan [03383]: by the morning [01242] light [0216] there lacked [05737] not one [0259] of them that was not gone over [05674] Jordan [03383].
16 Now therefore send [07971] quickly [04120], and tell [05046] David [01732], saying [0559], Lodge [03885] not this night [03915] in the plains [06160] [05679] of the wilderness [04057], but speedily [05674] pass over [05674]; lest the king [04428] be swallowed up [01104], and all the people [05971] that are with him.
5 And when king [04428] David [01732] came [0935] to Bahurim [0980], behold, thence came out [03318] a man [0376] of the family [04940] of the house [01004] of Saul [07586], whose name [08034] was Shimei [08096], the son [01121] of Gera [01617]: he came forth [03318], and cursed [07043] still as he came [03318].
18 Nevertheless a lad [05288] saw [07200] them, and told [05046] Absalom [053]: but they went [03212] both [08147] of them away quickly [04120], and came [0935] to a man's [0376] house [01004] in Bahurim [0980], which had a well [0875] in his court [02691]; whither [08033] they went down [03381].