The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Kings. Farrar Frederic William
45; 2 Sam. xiv. 11.
104
"Bowed himself." Comp. 1 Kings i. 47.
105
Grätz, i. 138 (E. T.).
106
2 Sam. xxiii. 1-7. It is no part of my duty here to enter into the extent of David's share in the Psalms; but I think that it is an exaggerated inference (of Wellhausen and others) from Amos vi. 5, 6 to suppose that he only wrote festal and warlike songs.
107
Apparently an allusion to Deut. xvii. 18-20. We read of no such exhortation having been addressed to Saul, or to David.
108
Chimham accompanied David to Jerusalem (2 Sam. xvii. 27, xix. 37-40), and perhaps inherited his property at Bethlehem, where he founded the Khan (Jer. xli. 17), in the cavern stable of which it may be that Christ was born.
109
Wellhausen, Stade, and others venture on the conjecture that David never gave these injunctions at all, but that they were invented afterwards to excuse Solomon for his acts of severity towards Adonijah's conspirators. I cannot see any valid ground for such arbitrary re-writing of the history. Shimei had taken no part in Adonijah's rebellion.
110
Zeruiah was "a sister of the sons of Jesse" (1 Chron. ii. 16), and was therefore a sister of Abigail, mother of Amasa; but she is called "the daughter of
111
1 Chron. ii. 17. "Jether (
112
David's enemies thought but little of the fact that David had spared Mephibosheth. They may have supposed that David spared him, not only because he was the son of the beloved Jonathan, but because being lame he could never become king. David's relations to him do not seem to have been very cordial.
113
2 Sam. xvi. 14 (Heb.). For Bahurim, see 2 Sam. xvi. 5, xvii. 18.
114
Acts xvii. 30.
115
Matt. v. 43, 44.
116
There is something analogous to protection
117
Comp. Josh. xxiii. 14; Keil,
118
Acts ii. 29. Josephus says that both Hyrcanus and Herod opened it to find the treasures which legend asserted to have been buried there (
119
These events – like almost everything derogatory to David and Solomon – are omitted by the chronicler.
120
Luke iii. 31. Salathiel, son of Neri (Luke iii. 27), of Nathan's house, was probably adopted by Jeconiah, who was childless; or if he had a son Assir (captive), the son had died. 1 Chron. iii. 17; Isa. xxii. 3.
121
2 Sam. xii. 8. Comp. 1 Kings xx. 7; 2 Kings xxiv. 15. We only know, however, of one wife of Saul, and one concubine.
122
Herod., iii. 68; Justin., x. 2.
123
Comp. 1 Kings xv. 13; 2 Kings xi. 1. The queen-mother, like the Sultana Walidé, is always more powerful than even the favourite wife.
124
Cant. iii. 11.
125
Psalm xlv. 9. Some little mystery evidently hangs over the name of Bathsheba. In 2 Sam. xi. 3 she is called "Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite"; but in 1 Chron. iii. 5 she is called "
126
Comp. Cant. vii. 1. It has been assumed that Solomon had already married Naamah the Ammonitess, and that Rehoboam was already born (see 1 Kings xiv. 21), but this is uncertain. Rehoboam, if he had reached the age of forty-one, could hardly have been called "young and tender-hearted" (2 Chron. xiii. 7).
127
Shunem (Sulem, Euseb.,
128
1 Sam. xxii. 23.
129
2 Sam. xv. 18 (LXX.).
130
131
It should be remembered that, as Ewald points out, imprisonment for life was a thing unknown.
132
This interesting addition is found in the Septuagint version.
133
2 Sam. xxiii. 20. Ewald, Thenius, and most other critics, followed by the R.V., adopt the LXX. reading, "Slew the two sons of Ariel of Moab."
134
Comp. 2 Kings xi. 15.
135
See Deut. xix. 13.
136
2 Sam. iii. 28, 29.
137
אָנֶה וָאָנָה (1 Kings ii. 36).
138
It should be remembered that when Shimei came to meet David on his return, he managed to muster one thousand of his Benjamite kinsmen. Such local influence might prove troublesome.
139
Achish seems to have been the dynastic name of the kings of Gath (1 Sam. xxi. 10, xxvii. 2). If this was the Achish, son of Maoch, with whom David had taken refuge fifty years before, he must now have been a very old man.
140
Esth. ii. 5.
141
Prov. xix. 11, xx. 2, 8, 26.
142
1 Kings ii. 7; Jer. xli. 17.
143
Lev. x. 1-20; Num. iii. 4, xxvi. 61. This has been not unnaturally inferred from the prohibition to the priests to drink wine while serving the tabernacle lest they die, which occurs immediately after the catastrophe of the two priests (Lev. x. 9-11).
144
Num. xxv. 13.
145
2 Chron. xxxiii. 6; 2 Kings xxi. 6. "His children."
146
2 Chron. xxviii. 3; 2 Kings xvi. 3. "His son."
147
1 Sam. ii. 27-36. For eight centuries there was no other instance of a high priest's deposition.
148
Isa. iii. 10.
149
See 1 Sam. xxi. 6, compared with 1 Chron. xvi. 39, 40; 2 Chron. i. 3.
150
An old Hivite capital (Josh. xviii. 21-25), now El Jib. Josephus alters it to "Hebron."
151
See 1 Chron. xvi. 39, 40, xxi. 29; 2 Chron. i. 3. The annals of Solomon fall into three divisions: first, his secure establishment upon the throne (1 Kings i, ii.); next, his wisdom, wealth, glory, and great buildings, especially the building of the Temple (iii. – x.); lastly, his fall and death (xi.).
152
It was sufficiently sanctioned by Exod. xx. 24, and Jerusalem was not yet chosen (Deut. xii. 13, 14). See Judg. vi. 24, xiii. 19; 1 Sam. ix. 12, etc. This seems to have been the last great sacrifice there.