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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — II Samuel
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 129,513 words · 374 reading sections
2 Samuel 23:9
2 Samuel 23:9 Ver. 9. And after him [was] Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite,.... Or the son of Ahohi, perhaps the same with Ahoah, a descendant of Benjamin, 1Ch 8:4; this Eleazar was the next to the Tachmonite, the second worthy of the first class: [one] of the three mighty men with David; the second of the three v…
166 wordsSECTION 3622 Samuel 23:10
2 Samuel 23:10 Ver. 10. He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary,.... He rose up when the Israelites fled, and stood his ground alone, and fought with the Philistines, and smote them with his sword, until his hand was weary with smiting: and his hand clave unto the sword; which was contracted by h…
4,122 wordsSECTION 3632 Samuel 24:1
2 Samuel 24:1 INTRODUCTION TO SECOND SAMUEL 24 In this chapter an account is given of David's numbering of the people, 2Sa 24:1; of the sense he had of his sin, and of his acknowledgment of it; and of the Lord's displeasure at it, who sent the prophet Gad to him, to propose three things to him, one of which he was to…
349 wordsSECTION 3642 Samuel 24:2
2 Samuel 24:2 Ver. 2. For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which [was] with him,.... Or who was with him, even Joab, who was now at court, and was a counsellor of David, as well as his general; or which army was with Joab, a standing army he had the command of: go now through all the tribes of Israel, f…
168 wordsSECTION 3652 Samuel 24:3
2 Samuel 24:3 Ver. 3. And Joab said unto the king,.... Not so rudely and insolently as he did on account of his mourning for Absalom, but in a more modest, decent, and polite manner: now the Lord thy God add unto the people (how many soever they be) an hundredfold; he wished his subjects were an hundred times more nu…
195 wordsSECTION 3662 Samuel 24:4
2 Samuel 24:4 Ver. 4. Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host,.... Who it seems were of the same mind with Joab, and were against numbering the people, yet their arguments and remonstrances were of no avail with the king; he was determined it should be done, and lai…
109 wordsSECTION 3672 Samuel 24:5
2 Samuel 24:5 Ver. 5. And they passed over Jordan,.... To take the number of the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh first: and pitched in Aroer; for it seems that Joab and the captains had the army with them, and the several captains under their command, partly to assist in numbering the people, …
205 wordsSECTION 3682 Samuel 24:6
2 Samuel 24:6 Ver. 6. Then they came to Gilead,.... The land of Gilead, half of which was given to the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the other half to the half tribe of Manasseh, De 3:12; which tribes were numbered, and the first of all: and to the land of Tahtimhodshi; or the low lands of a new place; it seems to be…
216 wordsSECTION 3692 Samuel 24:7
2 Samuel 24:7 Ver. 7. And came to the strong hold of Tyre,.... That is, old Tyre, which stood thirty furlongs from new Tyre, the island {y}; of which See Gill on "Isa 23:1"; this must be understood of the parts near unto it; for that itself was not within the land of Israel, and so its inhabitants not to be numbered: …
160 wordsSECTION 3702 Samuel 24:8
2 Samuel 24:8 Ver. 8. So when they had gone through all the land,.... Beginning at the east, and from thence to the north, and then going about to the west, came to the south, which finished their circuit: they came to Jerusalem, at the end of nine months and twenty days: they were ten months wanting ten days in numb…
73 wordsSECTION 3712 Samuel 24:9
2 Samuel 24:9 Ver. 9. And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king,.... Having collected from the several captains employed in this work their several particular numbers, he put them together, and gave in the sum total to David: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that dr…
405 wordsSECTION 3722 Samuel 24:10
2 Samuel 24:10 Ver. 10. And David's heart smote him, after that had numbered the people,.... For nine or ten months his conscience lay asleep, but now the thing was done, it is awakened, and accuses him for it, and he repents of it; now he began to see the pride and haughtiness of his heart; his vanity and confidence …
279 wordsSECTION 3732 Samuel 24:11
2 Samuel 24:11 Ver. 11. For when David was up in the morning,.... Which it is probable was very early, he not being able to sleep through the distress of mind he was in; for the words should be rendered, "and David arose in the morning" {c}, for, as we render them, they seem to imply as if he had no sense of his sin b…
173 wordsSECTION 3742 Samuel 24:12
2 Samuel 24:12 Ver. 12. Go, and say unto David,.... Not my servant David, as Nathan was bid to say to him when it was in his heart to build an house for him, 2Sa 7:5; but now he had sinned and displeased the Lord, and therefore it is only plain David: thus saith the Lord, I offer thee three [things]; or lay them befo…
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