2 Samuel 10

2 Samuel 10:1

children = sons.

2 Samuel 10:2

kindness = lovingkindness, or grace. Compare 2 Samuel 9:1.

as = according as.

2 Samuel 10:3

search = explore.

the city. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read “the land”. Compare 1 Chronicles 19:3.

2 Samuel 10:5

men. Heb ’enosh. App-14.

2 Samuel 10:6

men. Hebrew. ish, App-14.

Ish-tob = men of Tob.

2 Samuel 10:12

play the men = Be strong and let us put forth our strength. Hebrew. hozak.

God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.

the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.

2 Samuel 10:16

river: i.e. the Euphrates.

Shobach. Another name, Shophach (1 Chronicles 19:16).

2 Samuel 10:18

seven hundred. =1 Chronicles 19:187; 1 Chronicles 19:000. But Hebrew j = 7 and j = 7,000, probably a scribe’s

infirmity. Compare 2 Samuel 8:4 and 1 Chronicles 18:4.