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Selected Verse: 2 Samuel 19:40 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
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| 2Sa 19:40 |
Strong Concordance |
Then the king [04428] went on [05674] to Gilgal [01537], and Chimham [03643] went on [05674] with him: and all the people [05971] of Judah [03063] conducted [05674] [05674] the king [04428], and also half [02677] the people [05971] of Israel [03478]. |
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King James |
Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him: and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| the king went on to Gilgal, . . . and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel--Whether from impatience to move on or from some other cause, David did not wait till all the tribes had arrived to conduct him on his return to the capital. The procession began as soon as Amasa had brought the Judahite escort, and the preference given to this tribe produced a bitter jealousy, which was nearly kindling a civil war fiercer than that which had just ended. A war of words ensued between the tribes--Israel resting their argument on their superior numbers; "they had ten parts in the king," whereas Judah had no more than one. Judah grounded their right to take the lead, on the ground of their nearer relationship to the king. This was a claim dangerous to the house of David; and it shows the seeds were already sown for that tribal dissension which, before long, led to the dismemberment of the kingdom. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
Quarrel between Israel and Judah about the restoration of the king. - Sa2 19:40. David went across to Gilgal (in the plain of the Jordan: Jos 4:19), and Chimham (Chimhan is a modified form for Chimham: Sa2 19:37) had gone over with him, and all the people of Judah had brought the king over (the Keri העבירוּ is an easier reading than the Chethib ויּעבירוּ, "and as for the people, they had," etc.), and also "half the people of Israel," namely, beside the thousand Benjaminites who came with Shimei (Sa2 19:17), other Israelites who dwelt in the neighbourhood.
Sa2 19:41
All the men of Israel, i.e., the representatives of the other tribes of Israel, came to meet the king in Gilgal; and being annoyed at the fact that the men of Judah had anticipated them, they exclaimed, "Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away?" i.e., fetched thee thus secretly without saying a word to us. "All David's men" were all his faithful adherents who had fled with him from Jerusalem (Sa2 15:17.).
Sa2 19:42
The men of Judah replied against (על) the men of Israel: "The king stands near to us" (inasmuch as he belonged to their tribe), "and wherefore then art thou angry at this matter? Have we eaten from the king (i.e., derived any advantage from our tribe-relationship to him, as the Benjaminites did from Saul, according to Sa1 22:7), or received anything for ourselves therefrom?" נשּׂאת is an infinitive abs. Niph. with a feminine termination, borrowed from ה;ל literally, "or has taking been taken for us."
Sa2 19:43
The Israelites were annoyed at this answer, and retorted, "I (Israel) have ten portions in the king, and also more than thou in David; and wherefore hast thou despised me?" They considered that they had ten shares in the king, because they formed ten tribes, in opposition to the one tribe of Judah, as the Levites did not come into consideration in the matter. Although David was of the tribe of Judah, he was nevertheless king of the whole nation, so that the ten tribes had a larger share than one tribe. הקלּתני refers to the fact, that Judah took no notice at all of the tribes of Israel when fetching back the king. וגו ולא־היה, "and was not my speech the first to fetch back my king?" (On the fact itself, see Sa2 19:10-11.) לי is an emphatic dat. commodi, and is to be taken in connection with להשׁיב, notwithstanding the accents. "And the speech of the men of Judah became fiercer (more violent) than the speech of the men of Israel." With these words the historian sums up briefly the further progress of the dispute, for the purpose of appending the account of Sheba's rebellion, to which it gave rise. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Half - Whereas the men of Judah came entirely and unanimously to the king, the Israelites of the other tribe came in but slowly, and by halves, as being no less guilty of the rebellion, than the tribe of Judah; but not encouraged to come in by such a gracious message as they were. And this is here mentioned as the occasion both of the contention here following, and of the sedition, 2Sa. 20:1-22. |
10 And Absalom [053], whom we anointed [04886] over us, is dead [04191] in battle [04421]. Now therefore why speak [02790] ye not a word of bringing [07725] the king [04428] back [07725]?
11 And king [04428] David [01732] sent [07971] to Zadok [06659] and to Abiathar [054] the priests [03548], saying [0559], Speak [01696] unto the elders [02205] of Judah [03063], saying [0559], Why are ye the last [0314] to bring [07725] the king [04428] back [07725] to his house [01004]? seeing the speech [01697] of all Israel [03478] is come [0935] to the king [04428], even to his house [01004].
43 And the men [0376] of Israel [03478] answered [06030] the men [0376] of Judah [03063], and said [0559], We have ten [06235] parts [03027] in the king [04428], and we [0589] have also more right in David [01732] than ye: why then did ye despise [07043] us, that our advice [01697] should not be first [07223] had in bringing back [07725] our king [04428]? And the words [01697] of the men [0376] of Judah [03063] were fiercer [07185] than the words [01697] of the men [0376] of Israel [03478].
7 Then Saul [07586] said [0559] unto his servants [05650] that stood [05324] about him, Hear now [08085], ye Benjamites [01145]; will the son [01121] of Jesse [03448] give [05414] every one of you fields [07704] and vineyards [03754], and make [07760] you all captains [08269] of thousands [0505], and captains [08269] of hundreds [03967];
42 And all the men [0376] of Judah [03063] answered [06030] the men [0376] of Israel [03478], Because the king [04428] is near of kin [07138] to us: wherefore then be ye angry [02734] for this matter [01697]? have we eaten [0398] at all [0398] of the king's [04428] cost? or hath he given [05375] us any gift [05379]?
17 And the king [04428] went forth [03318], and all the people [05971] after [07272] him, and tarried [05975] in a place [01004] that was far off [04801] [01023].
41 And, behold, all the men [0376] of Israel [03478] came [0935] to the king [04428], and said [0559] unto the king [04428], Why have our brethren [0251] the men [0376] of Judah [03063] stolen thee away [01589], and have brought [05674] the king [04428], and his household [01004], and all David's [01732] men [0582] with him, over Jordan [03383]?
17 And there were a thousand [0505] men [0376] of Benjamin [01145] with him, and Ziba [06717] the servant [05288] of the house [01004] of Saul [07586], and his fifteen [02568] [06240] sons [01121] and his twenty [06242] servants [05650] with him; and they went over [06743] Jordan [03383] before [06440] the king [04428].
37 Let thy servant [05650], I pray thee, turn back again [07725], that I may die [04191] in mine own city [05892], and be buried by the grave [06913] of my father [01] and of my mother [0517]. But behold thy servant [05650] Chimham [03643]; let him go over [05674] with my lord [0113] the king [04428]; and do [06213] to him what shall seem good [02896] [05869] unto thee.
19 And the people [05971] came up [05927] out of Jordan [03383] on the tenth [06218] day of the first [07223] month [02320], and encamped [02583] in Gilgal [01537], in the east [04217] border [07097] of Jericho [03405].
40 Then the king [04428] went on [05674] to Gilgal [01537], and Chimham [03643] went on [05674] with him: and all the people [05971] of Judah [03063] conducted [05674] [05674] the king [04428], and also half [02677] the people [05971] of Israel [03478].