From Reformation to Reformation

[We could use your help: If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way.   Click here to watch a brief video on the project.] Verse 32: [1]   And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.  And they came before the king.   Verse 33: [2]   The king also said unto them, ( 2 Sam. 20:6 ) Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to rid

Verse 22: [1]   And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet also came in. Nathan the prophet also came in :  To discourse with the king; which made it fit for her to withdraw, as she did, verse 28.   Verse 23: [2]   And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet.  And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground. [ And they announced to the king, etc .]  The stewards, who kept the doors, and w

Verse 11: [1]   Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of ( 2 Sam. 3:4 ) Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not? Nathan  was prompted to this both by his piety in fulfilling the will of God declared to him, and by him to David, concerning Solomon’s succession, 2 Samuel 7:13; 1 Chronicles 22:8, 9; and by his prudence, as knowing that Adonijah hated him for being the principal instrument of

Verse 5: [1]   Then ( 2 Sam. 3:4 ) Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king ( Heb. reign [2] ):  and ( 2 Sam. 15:1 ) he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. [ He was lifted up  (thus the Septuagint, Montanus)]  By his ambitious spirit (Menochius).  ‎מִתְנַשֵּׂא, [3] efferebat , he was raising  ( efferens / raising  [Tigurinus, Junius and Tremellius]) himself  (Pagnine, similarly the Arabic, Munster, Vatablus).  Lifte

[ 1015 BC ]  Verse 1: [1]   Now king David was old and stricken in years ( Heb. entered into days [2] ); and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. [ King David had grown old ]  That is, he was seventy years of age (Piscator, [3] Malvenda, [4] Lyra, [5] Menochius, [6] Serarius, [7] Junius [8] ); as it is evident out of 2 Samuel 5:4, 5 (Malvenda out of Junius). Stricken in years ; Being in the end of his seventieth year. [ And, although he was covered in cloth

Abishag cherisheth David in his extreme age , 1-4 .  Adonijah usurpeth the kingdom , 5-10 .  By the counsel of Nathan to Bath-sheba, and their petition to David, he reneweth his oath of making Solomon king after him , 11-31 .  He, by David’s appointment, is anointed king; the people triumph , 32-40 .  Adonijah hearing this, his guests flee, and himself fleeth to the horns of the altar; is pardoned by Solomon, and sent to his own house , 41-53 .

These two Books called Of the Kings , because they treat of the kings of Judah and Israel, were written by the prophets, or holy men of God, living in or near their several times, and by some one of them digested into this order.  But whoever was the penman, that these are a part of those Holy Scriptures which were Divinely inspired is sufficiently evident first, From the concurring testimony of the whole Jewish church in all ages, to whom were committed the oracles of God , 

This book begins with the events of the life of Solomon; yet with narration added in the beginning showing how Solomon came to the Kingdom.  I compare Numa [1] to Solomon:  Both were led by a certain fate; both were wise; both built a temple; both introduced external ceremonies.  Numa left after him sons as private citizens; Solomon a Royal son of a concubine. [2]   Once the Kingdom is divided in two, you will see that all the Kings of Israel are bad.  With respect to the Ki

Verse 16: [1]   ( Ex. 12:23; 1 Chron. 21:15 ) And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, ( Gen. 6:6; 1 Sam. 15:11; Joel 2:13, 14 ) the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough:  stay now thine hand.  And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah ( 1 Chron. 21:15, Ornan ; [2]  see 2 Sam. 24:18; 2 Chron. 3:1 ) the Jebusite. [ When the angel of the Lord stretched out his hand ]  Tha

Verse 10: [1]   And ( 1 Sam. 24:5 ) David’s heart smote him after that he had numbered the people.  And David said unto the LORD, ( 2 Sam. 12:13 ) I have sinned greatly in that I have done:  and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have ( 1 Sam. 13:13 ) done very foolishly. [ David’s heart smote him  (thus Piscator)]  He began to repent, etc., or to be vexed on account of that deed (Vatablus, similarly Piscator, Malvenda).  He was smitten

Verse 9: [1]   And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king:  ( see 1 Chron. 21:5 ) and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men. [ Joab gave the number of the record of the people , ‎אֶת־מִסְפַּ֥ר מִפְקַד־הָעָ֖ם]  The number of the census  (or of the numbering  [Pagnine], of the computation  [Vatablus], of the inspection  [Septuagint]) of the people  (Montanus, Juniu

Verse 3: [1]   And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it :  but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing? [ May the Lord add, etc .]  Joab perceived that this matter was going to be inconvenient.  Joab was sagacious, but in the matters of others rather than his own:  he was giving David good advice, but it accomplished nothing (Martyr).  He wants to de

[We could use your help: If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way.   Click here to watch a brief video on the project. ] [ 1017 BC ]  Verse 1: [1]   And ( 2 Sam. 21:2 ) again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he ( Satan , see 1 Chron. 21:1; Jam. 1:13, 14 ) moved David against them to say, ( 1 Chron. 27:23, 24 ) Go, number Israel and Judah. [ And the fury of the Lord added to be angry

David, tempted by Satan, forceth Joab to number the people; who are thirteen hundred thousand fighting men , 1-9 .  David acknowledgeth his sin in it:  having three judgments propounded by God, he is in great distress, and chooseth the pestilence; of which seventy thousand men die , 10-15 .  David by his humiliation preventeth the destruction of Jerusalem , 16, 17 .  He by Gad’s direction and order from God purchaseth Araunah’s threshing-floor to build an altar there; on whic

Verse 24: [1]   ( 2 Sam. 2:18 ) Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem… [ Asahel in the thirty [2] ]  Or, over those thirty , that is, the last man indeed of the second order, or ternion; but more excellent than the thirty Chiliarchs, when he next names in order.  For those six of the two ternions hitherto mentioned were put in charge of five Chiliarchs apiece, as Joab was the commander-in-chief of all:  for these two words, ov

Verse 18: [1]   And ( 1 Chron. 11:20 ) Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three.  And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them  ( Heb. slain [2] ), and had the name among three. [ He was chief of the three , ה֚וּא רֹ֣אשׁ הַשְּׁלֹשִׁ֔י]  The Qere is ‎ה֚וּא רֹ֣אשׁ הַשְּׁלֹשָׁ֔ה, he was head , or chief , of the three  (Montanus, Pagnine, Septuagint, Junius and Tremellius), that is, he was holding the first rank among the three la

Verse 13: [1]   And three of the thirty chief ( or, the three captains over the thirty , 1 Chron. 11:15 [2] ) went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto ( 1 Sam. 22:1 ) the cave of Adullam:  and the troop of the Philistines pitched in ( 2 Sam. 5:18 ) the valley of Rephaim. [ Previously the three had gone down, etc .]  Question:  Who then were these?  Response 1:  The three mentioned above (Junius, Malvenda, Josephus and Vatablus and Mariana in Sanchez).  Jashobeam,

Verse 11: [1]   And after him was ( 1 Chron. 11:27 ) Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite.  ( see 1 Chron. 11:13, 14 ) And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop ( or, for foraging [2] ), where was a piece of ground full of lentiles:  and the people fled from the Philistines. [ And the Philistines were gathered together in station , לַחַיָּה  [3] ]  They render it variously.  To Haiatha  (Jonathan) [as if it were the proper name of a place].  To wild beasts  (Sep

Verse 9: [1]   And after him was ( 1 Chron. 11:12; 27:4 ) Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away… [ After him [2] ]  That is, who was of the second dignity after him (Vatablus). [ The son of his paternal uncle [3] ]  Namely, adoptive and legal, by the Law in Deuteronomy 25:6.  He was the natural son of the living brother; tha

Verse 8: [1]   These be the names of the mighty men whom David had:  The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains ( or, Josheb-bassebet the Tachmonite, head of the three [2] ); the same was Adino the Eznite:  ( see 1 Chron. 11:11; 27:2 ) he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew ( Heb. slain [3] ) at one time. [ These are the names of the mighty men of David ]  Of the heroes of that time, whose strength seemed to exceed human measure (Grotius).