2 Samuel 5:1-10 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 5:1-5

Here is, I. The humble address of all the tribes to David, beseeching him to take upon him the government (for they were now as sheep having no shepherd), and owning him for their king. Though David might by no means approve the murder of Ish-bosheth, yet he might improve the advantages he gained thereby, and accept the applications made to him thereupon. Judah had submitted to David as their king above seven years ago, and their ease and happiness, under his administration, encouraged the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 5:6-10

If Salem, the place of which Melchizedec was king, was Jerusalem (as seems probable from Ps. 76:2), it was famous in Abraham's time. Joshua, in his time, found it the chief city of the south part of Canaan, Josh. 10:1-3. It fell to Benjamin's lot (Josh. 18:28), but joined close to Judah?s, Josh. 15:8. The children of Judah had taken it (Jdg. 1:8), but the children of Benjamin suffered the Jebusites to dwell among them (Jdg. 1:21), and they grew so upon them that it became a city of Jebusites,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 5:1

Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron ,.... All the rest of the tribes, save the tribe of Judah, who had made him king over them in Hebron seven years ago. These were ambassadors sent in the name of the several tribes to him, quickly after the deaths of Abner and Ishbosheth; from having any hand in which David had sufficiently cleared himself, and which had tended to reconcile the minds of the people of Israel to him: and spake, saying, we are thy bone and thy flesh ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 5:2

Also in time past, when Saul was king over us ,.... Even over all the tribes of Israel: thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel ; that led out the armies of Israel against their enemies, fought their battles for them, obtained victories, and brought the troops under his command home in safety; and the remembrance of these valiant acts of his, which then endeared him to the people, was now another reason for their choosing him king: and another follows, the chiefest of them... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 5:3

So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron ,.... Which either explains what is meant by the tribes coming to him, 2 Samuel 5:1 ; namely, coming by their elders as their representatives; or else the meaning is, that the messengers the tribes sent, when they returned and reported the favourable reception they had met with from David; the elders of the several tribes, the princes or principal men met, and came together to David in Hebron: and King David made a league with them... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 5:4

David was thirty years old when he began reign ,.... Over Judah, which was the age of his antitype Christ, when he entered upon his public ministry, Luke 3:23 , and he reigned forty years ; and six months, as appears by 2 Samuel 5:5 ; but the months are not mentioned, only the round number of years given: two reasons the Jews F1 Hieron. Trad. Heb. in lib. Reg. fol. 77. I. give for this; the one, that he fled six months from Absalom; the other is, that he was ill in Hebron... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 5:5

In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months ,.... So long the kingdom of Israel continued in the house of Saul after his death; and by this it appears that David was near thirty eight years of age when the elders of Israel came and made him their king: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah ; which in all made forty years and six months, see 1 Kings 2:11 ; upon his being made king over all the tribes, as soon as he had taken the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 5:6

And the king and his men went to Jerusalem ,.... Which, at least part of it, belonged to the tribe of Benjamin; and therefore until all Israel, and that tribe, with the rest, made him king, he did not attempt the reduction of it, but now he immediately set out on an expedition against it: unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land : who inhabited the country about it, and even dwelt in that itself; for the tribe of Judah could not drive them out at first from that part of it which... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 5:7

Nevertheless, David took the strong hold of Zion ,.... A fortress without the city, and separate from it, and which was very strong; and the taking it might facilitate the taking of the city, which yet as appears by what follows, was very difficult to do: the same is the city of David ; it was afterwards so called, where he built an house, and dwelt. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 5:8

And David said on that day ,.... On which he took the strong hold of Zion: whosoever getteth up to the gutter ; where it is generally supposed the blind and lame were, whether images or real men: but what is meant by "Tzinnur", we render "gutter", is not easy to say; we follow some of the Jewish writers, who take it to be a canal, or water spout, used to carry off the water from roofs of houses into cisterns, as the word is rendered in Psalm 42:7 ; which is the only place besides this... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 5:1-5

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 5:6-10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 5:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 5:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 5:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 5:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 5:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 5:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 5:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 5:8

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