2 Samuel 5:8

to the gutter = by (or through) the zinnor, a rock-cut passage from the lower Gihon or En-Rogel (now the Virgin's Fount on east of Ophel), leading up into the city and supplying water. Discovered by Sir Charles Warren. Compare note on Nehemiah 2:13 , &c.

soul . Hebrew. nephesh. App-13 .

he shall be chief and captain . These words are supplied from 1 Chronicles 11:6 , which tells that Joab got up the zinnor first. Probably revealed to him (or to David) by Araunah, who (though a Jebusite) was not slain, but is found, later on, owning property quite near (2 Samuel 24:16 ). Josephus says Araunah was a friend of David's.

Wherefore = Because.