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Selected Verse: 2 Samuel 5:9 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
2Sa 5:9 |
Strong Concordance |
So David [01732] dwelt [03427] in the fort [04686], and called [07121] it the city [05892] of David [01732]. And David [01732] built [01129] round about [05439] from Millo [04407] and inward [01004]. |
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King James |
So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward. |
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] |
David dwelt in the fort, &c.--Having taken it by storm, he changed its name to "the city of David," to signify the importance of the conquest, and to perpetuate the memory of the event.
David built round about from Millo and inward--probably a row of stone bastions placed on the northern side of Mount Zion, and built by David to secure himself on that side from the Jebusites, who still lived in the lower part of the city. The house of Millo was perhaps the principal corner tower of that fortified wall. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
David dwelt in the fort - or stronghold, (as in Sa2 5:7) i. e. eventually, when the buildings were completed, which may not have been for two or three years. Millo appears to have been a fortress of some kind, the northern defense of the city of David, and to have been a part of the original Canaanite defenses of Zion, as appears probable also from there having been a fortress called the house of Millo in the Canaanite city of Shechem. (Jdg 9:6 note, and Sa2 9:1-13 :20.) Millo may be the native name. Some identify it with the great platform called the Haram es Sherif.
David built round about - Probably meaning built his own house and other houses and streets, all, in short, that caused it to be coiled the city of David. (Compare Ch1 11:8.) The buildings were within, on the south of Millo, so as to be protected by it on the north, as they were east, west. and south, by the precipitous ravines. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Millo - Which seems to have been the town - hall or, state - house, near the wall of the city of Zion. |
8 And he built [01129] the city [05892] round about [05439], even from Millo [04407] round about [05439]: and Joab [03097] repaired [02421] the rest [07605] of the city [05892].
1 And David [01732] said [0559], Is there yet [03426] any that is left [03498] of the house [01004] of Saul [07586], that I may shew [06213] him kindness [02617] for Jonathan's [03083] sake?
2 And there was of the house [01004] of Saul [07586] a servant [05650] whose name [08034] was Ziba [06717]. And when they had called [07121] him unto David [01732], the king [04428] said [0559] unto him, Art thou Ziba [06717]? And he said [0559], Thy servant [05650] is he.
3 And the king [04428] said [0559], Is there not [0657] yet any [0376] of the house [01004] of Saul [07586], that I may shew [06213] the kindness [02617] of God [0430] unto him? And Ziba [06717] said [0559] unto the king [04428], Jonathan [03083] hath yet a son [01121], which is lame [05223] on his feet [07272].
4 And the king [04428] said [0559] unto him, Where [0375] is he? And Ziba [06717] said [0559] unto the king [04428], Behold, he is in the house [01004] of Machir [04353], the son [01121] of Ammiel [05988], in Lodebar [03810].
5 Then king [04428] David [01732] sent [07971], and fetched [03947] him out of the house [01004] of Machir [04353], the son [01121] of Ammiel [05988], from Lodebar [03810].
6 Now when Mephibosheth [04648], the son [01121] of Jonathan [03083], the son [01121] of Saul [07586], was come [0935] unto David [01732], he fell [05307] on his face [06440], and did reverence [07812]. And David [01732] said [0559], Mephibosheth [04648]. And he answered [0559], Behold thy servant [05650]!
7 And David [01732] said [0559] unto him, Fear [03372] not: for I will surely [06213] shew [06213] thee kindness [02617] for Jonathan [03083] thy father's [01] sake, and will restore [07725] thee all the land [07704] of Saul [07586] thy father [01]; and thou shalt eat [0398] bread [03899] at my table [07979] continually [08548].
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?
9 Then the king [04428] called [07121] to Ziba [06717], Saul's [07586] servant [05288], and said [0559] unto him, I have given [05414] unto thy master's [0113] son [01121] all that pertained [01961] to Saul [07586] and to all his house [01004].
10 Thou therefore, and thy sons [01121], and thy servants [05650], shall till [05647] the land [0127] for him, and thou shalt bring [0935] in the fruits, that thy master's [0113] son [01121] may have food [03899] to eat [0398]: but Mephibosheth [04648] thy master's [0113] son [01121] shall eat [0398] bread [03899] alway [08548] at my table [07979]. Now Ziba [06717] had fifteen [02568] [06240] sons [01121] and twenty [06242] servants [05650].
11 Then said [0559] Ziba [06717] unto the king [04428], According to all that my lord [0113] the king [04428] hath commanded [06680] his servant [05650], so shall thy servant [05650] do [06213]. As for Mephibosheth [04648], said the king, he shall eat [0398] at my table [07979], as one [0259] of the king's [04428] sons [01121].
12 And Mephibosheth [04648] had a young [06996] son [01121], whose name [08034] was Micha [04316]. And all that dwelt [04186] in the house [01004] of Ziba [06717] were servants [05650] unto Mephibosheth [04648].
13 So Mephibosheth [04648] dwelt [03427] in Jerusalem [03389]: for he did eat [0398] continually [08548] at the king's [04428] table [07979]; and was lame [06455] on both [08147] his feet [07272].
6 And all the men [01167] of Shechem [07927] gathered together [0622], and all the house [01004] of Millo [04407] [01037], and went [03212], and made [04427] Abimelech [040] king [04428], by the plain [0436] of the pillar [05324] that was in Shechem [07927].
7 Nevertheless David [01732] took [03920] the strong hold [04686] of Zion [06726]: the same is the city [05892] of David [01732].