Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 23:1-7
CHAPTER XXXI.THE LAST WORDS OF DAVID.2 Samuel 23:1-7.(See Revised Version and margin.)OF these "the last words of David," we need not understand that they were the last words he ever spoke, but his last song or psalm, his latest vision, and therefore the subject that was most in his mind in the last period of his life. The Psalm recorded in the preceding chapter was an earlier song, and its main drift was of the past. Of this latest Psalm the main drift is of the future. The colours of this... read more
Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 2 Samuel 23:1-39
Heroism 2 Samuel 23:15-16 It is abundantly clear that no one sent the three on their splendid errand. It is highly probable that had David known of their project he would have forbidden it. Some one had heard a few words of the king's soliloquy. His wish was whispered through the camp. And these men went forth unknown to him to meet it. Nor was the journey of the three through the enemy's lines mere bravado, or for fame's sake. They of all men had least temptation in these directions. It were... read more