Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 23:4
Comparisons illustrating the prosperity of the righteous king. read more
2 Samuel 23:1-12 Kjv
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 23:5
Although my house ... - The sense of this clause (according to the the King James Version) will be that David comparing the actual state of his family and kingdom during the later years of trouble and disaster with the prophetic description of the prosperity of the righteous king, and seeing how far it falls short, comforts himself by the terms of God’s covenant 2 Samuel 7:12-16 and looks forward to Messiah’s kingdom. The latter clause, “although he make it not to grow,” must then mean that,... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 23:8
The duplicate of this passage is in 1 Chronicles 11:0, where it is in immediate connection with David’s accession to the throne of Israel, and where the mighty men are named as those by whose aid David was made king. The document belongs to the early part of David’s reign. The text of 2 Samuel 23:8-9 is perhaps to be corrected by comparison with 1 Chronicles 11:11-12.Chief among the captains - There is great doubt about the exact meaning of this phrase.(1) the title is given to two other... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 23:9
Gone away - Rather, went up to battle (2 Samuel 5:19; 2 Kings 3:21, etc.) against them. These words and what follows as far as “troop” 2 Samuel 23:11 have fallen out of the text in Chronicles. The effect of this is to omit EIeazar’s feat, as here described, to attribute to him Shammah’s victory, to misplace the flight of the Israelites, and to omit Shammah altogether from the list of David’s mighty men. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 23:11
Hararite - Interpreted to mean “mountaineer,” one from the hill country of Judah or Ephraim. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 23:1
2 Samuel 23:1. These be the last words of David Not simply the last that he spoke, but the last which he spake by the Spirit of God, assisting and directing him in an extraordinary manner. When we find death approaching, we should endeavour both to honour God, and to profit others with our last words. Let those who have had experience of God’s goodness, and the pleasantness of the ways of wisdom, when they come to finish their course, leave a record of those experiences, and bear their... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 23:2-3
2 Samuel 23:2-3. His word was in my tongue The following words, and consequently the other words and psalms composed and uttered by me upon the like solemn occasions, are not to be looked upon as human inventions, but both the matter and the words of them were suggested by God’s Spirit, the great teacher of the church. The Rock of Israel He who is the strength, and defence, and protector of his people; which he manifests by directing kings and rulers so to manage their power, as may most... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 23:4
2 Samuel 23:4. He shall be as the light of the morning These words are a further description of the king’s duty, which is not only to rule with justice and piety, but also with sweetness, and gentleness, and condescension to the infirmities of his people; to render his government as acceptable to them as is the sunshine in a clear morning, or the tender grass which springs out of the earth by the warm beams of the sun after the rain. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 23:5
2 Samuel 23:5. Although my house be not so with God Although God knows that neither I nor my children have lived and ruled as we should have done, so justly, and in the fear of the Lord; and therefore have not enjoyed that uninterrupted prosperity which we might have enjoyed. Covenant Notwithstanding all our transgressions whereby we have broken covenant with God, yet God, to whom all my sins were known, was graciously pleased to make a sure covenant, to continue the kingdom to me, and to... read more
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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 23:1
The last words of David - i. e., his last Psalm, his last “words of song” 2 Samuel 22:1. The insertion of this Psalm, which is not in the Book of Psalms, was probably suggested by the insertion of the long Psalm in 2 Samuel 22:0.David the son of Jesse said ... - The original word for “said” is used between 200 and 300 times in the phrase, “saith the Lord,” designating the word of God in the mouth of the prophet. It is only applied to the words of a man here, and in the strikingly similar... read more