The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Kings. Farrar Frederic William
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No trace of any such misgiving is found in the Book of Kings.
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"Seine Liebhaberei sind kostbare Bauten, fremde Weiber, reiche Prachtentfaltung" (Kittel, ii. 160).
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Perhaps rather "the grandson." He was the son of Ahimaaz (comp. Gen. xxix. 5; Ezra v. 1, where
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Shisha and Shavsha are perhaps corruptions of Seraiah (2 Sam. viii. 17).
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Comp. Esth. vi. 1. LXX., Isa. xxxvi. 3, ὁ ὑπομνηματογράφος 2 Sam. viii. 17, ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν ὑπομνημάτων. Jerome, "
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It is a somewhat ominous fact that
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The king's friend (2 Sam. xv. 37) seems to have been a sort of confidential privy councillor (Prov. xxii. 11).
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Isa. xxii. 21.
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2 Sam. xx. 24.
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Possibly this clause is an interpolation.
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2 Sam. viii. 18. Even "Ira the Jairite" is called "a priest" (2 Sam. xx. 26). An attempt has been made to explain the word away because it obviously clashes with Levitic ordinances; but the word "priest" could not be used in two different senses in two consecutive lines. Dogmatic considerations have tampered with the obvious meaning of the word. The LXX. omits it, and in the case of David's sons calls them αὐλάρχαι. The A.V. renders it "chief officer." The Vulgate wrongly refers it to Zadok (filius Sadoc
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2 Sam. v. 14; Zech. xii. 12; Luke iii. 31.
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The degraded and ominous apparitions of
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2 Kings xviii. 18; Isa. xxii. 15.