2 Samuel 23
DOYLY— the sweet psalmist of Israel.] This title seems most eminently to belong to David, as he was the person who had brought to perfection the musick of the Jewish service, having not only composed the Psalms, but the musick also, and having prescribed to the performers their several parts, &c. Dr. Gray.
2 Samuel 23:2
- The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, &c.] That is, it was by the Divine inspiration that I composed my various psalms, and now speak this. Dr. Wells.
2 Samuel 23:3
- — He that ruleth &c.] Or, as in the margin, Be thou ruler over &c. which the Chaldee expounds of the Messiah in this manner; The faithful God spake, I will constitute to Me a king, He is the Messiah, who shall arise and reign in the fear of the Lord: but this relates Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: || he lift up his spear against eight hundred, † whom he slew at one time. Before CHRIST 1018. Sec 1 Chr. 11. 11.
2 Samuel 23:5
- Although my house be not so &c.] My house or kingdom is not so with God; that is, is by God’s appointment destined to excel the forementioned comparisons taken from natural things: for they are none of them stable and constant; whereas He, namely, God, hath made with me an everlasting covenant, a (covenant of an everlasting as well as blessed and glorious kingdom,) ordered in all things aright and sure: which is to be chiefly understood, and is fully true, of the kingdom of Christ. For this kingdom of Christ that is to descend from me, is that wherein is founded all my salvation, and all my desire. Dr. Wells. Otherwise the sense may be, Although I have not in every point been answerable to that which God hath required of me, and foretold concerning me, yet in His great mercy He hath made an everlasting covenant with me. Bp. Hall.
2 Samuel 23:8
- These be the names] Here follows a catalogue of those valiant men, who helped to raise David to his dignity, and to preserve him in it, being continually with him in his wars. — The Tachmonite] Called Jashobeam at 1 Chron. xi. 11: he sat in the seat, probably in the council of war.
2 Samuel 23:13
- And three of the thirty chief] Rather, as in the margin, three captains over the thirty. Bp. Patrick. — the cave of Adullam:] A place where he had
2 Samuel 23:15
- — the well of Beth-lehem.] There is still shewn in the neighbourhood of Beth-lehem a well, called the “well of David,” and supposed to be that here mentioned. Maundrell.
2 Samuel 23:16
- — nevertheless he would not drink thereof.] David, though longing with an earnest appetite, would not taste a drop of the water brought to him; but, in condemnation of the inordinancy of his appetite, which
2 Samuel 23:17
- — is not this the blood &c.] He considers the water brought at such hazard, as blood, which by command of God was to be poured on the ground.
2 Samuel 23:39
- — thirty and seven in all.] Only thirty-six are named; therefore Joab, who was the head of them all, should be included, to complete the number. Bp. Patrick.
Before CHRIST 1018. 11. 27.