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Selected Verse: 2 Samuel 18:19 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
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| 2Sa 18:19 |
Strong Concordance |
Then said [0559] Ahimaaz [0290] the son [01121] of Zadok [06659], Let me now run [07323], and bear [01319] the king [04428] tidings [01319], how that the LORD [03068] hath avenged [08199] him of his enemies [03027] [0341]. |
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King James |
Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged him of his enemies. |
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] |
| Then said Ahimaaz . . . Let me . . . run and bear the king tidings--The reasons why Joab declined to accept Ahimaaz' offer to bear intelligence of the victory to David, and afterwards let him go along with another, are variously stated by commentators--but they are of no importance. Yet the alacrity of the messengers, as well as the eager excitement of the expectants, is graphically described. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Ahimaaz was a well-known runner Sa2 18:27. Speed was a heroic virtue in those simple times (compare Sa2 2:18). In Hezekiah's reign Ch2 30:6, Ch2 30:10 we find an establishment of running post-men; and the same name ("runners") is given Est 3:13 to the Persian posts, though at that time they rode on mules and camels.
Bear tidings - The original word is used almost exclusively of bearing good tidings, and hence, is rendered in the Septuagint (though not always) εὐαγγίζεσθαι euangelizesthai Sa2 4:10; Sa1 31:9. In Sa2 18:21, it is not "carry the good tidings," but "tell," simply "announce." |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| David is informed of the victory, and of the death of Absalom. - Sa2 18:19, Sa2 18:20. Ahimaaz, the son of Zadok, wanted to carry the news to David, that Jehovah had "procured the king justice out of the hand of his enemies" (שׁפט with מן is a pregnant expression signifying to procure justice and deliver out of); but Joab, knowing how David would receive the tidings of the death of Absalom, replied, "Thou art no man of good tidings to-day; thou shalt take the news on another day, not on this, even because (על־כּן כּי, see at Gen 18:5) the king's son is dead." The Keri על־כּן כּי is to be preferred to the Chethib כּי־על; and כּן has no doubt been dropt out merely because of בּן which follows. The Chethib does not give any suitable sense; for the absence of the article before מת is decisive against the explanation proposed by Maurer, viz., "for (tidings have to be carried) concerning the king's son dead." If מת were to be construed as an adverb with בּן־מלך, it would of necessity have the article. |
21 Then said [0559] Joab [03097] to Cushi [03569], Go [03212] tell [05046] the king [04428] what thou hast seen [07200]. And Cushi [03569] bowed [07812] himself unto Joab [03097], and ran [07323].
9 And they cut off [03772] his head [07218], and stripped off [06584] his armour [03627], and sent [07971] into the land [0776] of the Philistines [06430] round about [05439], to publish [01319] it in the house [01004] of their idols [06091], and among the people [05971].
10 When one told [05046] me, saying [0559], Behold, Saul [07586] is dead [04191], thinking to have brought [05869] good tidings [01319], I took hold [0270] of him, and slew [02026] him in Ziklag [06860], who thought that I would have given [05414] him a reward for his tidings [01309]:
13 And the letters [05612] were sent [07971] by [03027] posts [07323] into all the king's [04428] provinces [04082], to destroy [08045], to kill [02026], and to cause to perish [06], all Jews [03064], both young [05288] and old [02205], little children [02945] and women [0802], in one [0259] day [03117], even upon the thirteenth [07969] [06240] day of the twelfth [08147] [06240] month [02320], which is the month [02320] Adar [0143], and to take the spoil [07998] of them for a prey [0962].
10 So the posts [07323] passed [05674] from city [05892] to city [05892] through the country [0776] of Ephraim [0669] and Manasseh [04519] even unto Zebulun [02074]: but they laughed them to scorn [07832], and mocked [03932] them.
6 So the posts [07323] went [03212] with the letters [0107] from [03027] the king [04428] and his princes [08269] throughout all Israel [03478] and Judah [03063], and according to the commandment [04687] of the king [04428], saying [0559], Ye children [01121] of Israel [03478], turn again [07725] unto the LORD [03068] God [0430] of Abraham [085], Isaac [03327], and Israel [03478], and he will return [07725] to the remnant [07604] of you, that are escaped [06413] out of the hand [03709] of the kings [04428] of Assyria [0804].
18 And there were three [07969] sons [01121] of Zeruiah [06870] there, Joab [03097], and Abishai [052], and Asahel [06214]: and Asahel [06214] was as light [07031] of foot [07272] as a [0259] wild [07704] roe [06643].
27 And the watchman [06822] said [0559], Me thinketh [07200] the running [04794] of the foremost [07223] is like the running [04794] of Ahimaaz [0290] the son [01121] of Zadok [06659]. And the king [04428] said [0559], He is a good [02896] man [0376], and cometh [0935] with good [02896] tidings [01309].
5 And I will fetch [03947] a morsel [06595] of bread [03899], and comfort ye [05582] your hearts [03820]; after that [0310] ye shall pass on [05674]: for therefore are ye come [05674] to [05921] your servant [05650]. And they said [01696], So do [06213], as thou hast said [0559].
20 And Joab [03097] said [0559] unto him, Thou [0376] shalt not bear tidings [01309] this day [03117], but thou shalt bear tidings [01319] another [0312] day [03117]: but this day [03117] thou shalt bear no tidings [01319], because the king's [04428] son [01121] is dead [04191].
19 Then said [0559] Ahimaaz [0290] the son [01121] of Zadok [06659], Let me now run [07323], and bear [01319] the king [04428] tidings [01319], how that the LORD [03068] hath avenged [08199] him of his enemies [03027] [0341].