Many an edifice of our proposal and making God had never asked of us. Interestingly, the Lord is also depicted, like the human king, as having recorders, though the word is translated remembrancers (RV, AV mg.); their responsibility was to keep reminding him of his stated intentions until they were completed (Isaiah 62:6). 10. It is granted that, where we are occupied with the people first, we are never right. David took from him one thousand chariots, seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers. iii. But it is holy joy. If indeed we believe, beloved brethren, then do we with patience wait for it: the hope that we have is well worth the while. Weakness or worse must always be till Jesus take the throne. , from , fodit, perfodit, is used in the same sense. k Ut supra. We need 2 cookies to store this setting. Nevertheless it is solemn enough to observe that these men had known it all the time. This refutes the allegation of Bennett that, "The priesthood was not limited either to the house of Aaron nor to that of Levi." [25] "And David's sons were priests" ( 2 Samuel 8:18 ). But I will build David a house," and He prophesied of the coming Messiah.But even though he was refused by God, the privilege of building a house for God, yet David then set about to raise all of the treasure for the house of God. Was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites , Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. Now they could remember that Jehovah said, "Thou shalt feed my people." 2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33; 2 Samuel 23 Commentary. It remains a valuable resource for Christians seeking a deeper understanding of the Scriptures. "And Michal the daughter of Saul [mark the significant repetition of the natural root] came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!" Click to enable/disable _gat_* - Google Analytics Cookie. ], Davids sons were in some sense priests. And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and said, How shall the ark of Jehovah come to me? (19-27) Two runners are sent to tell David the outcome of the battle. Hence he could do no more at present than say "to Joab and all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. 2 Samuel 8:15-18 constitute a summary of David's administration and conclude this section of Samuel (2 Samuel 5:17 to 2 Samuel 8:18) that records the major important features of David's reign (cf. Was there a reproach from David? Study Guide for 2 Samuel 18 by David Guzik - Blue Letter Bible His care extended itself to all the parts of his dominion: He reigned over all Israel (2 Samuel 8:15; 2 Samuel 8:15); not only he had a right to reign over all the tribes, but he did so; they were all safe under his protection, and shared in the fruits of his good government. Gods blessing came on Israel when the people had a proper attitude toward Him, which their proper attitude toward the ark symbolized (2 Samuel 6:12-19). The summary may not be intended as all-inclusive, since other wars and skirmishes are mentioned later in the book (cf. II. 75-86; and J. Barton Payne, "1, 2 Chronicles," in I Kings-Job, vol. 2. David had previously defeated these people. Were they Philistines? to be fulfilled. "Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel? It deepens your judgment of the condition in which they may be practically; but then it strengthens your desire to see them really delivered out of it. We know how the grace of the Lord Jesus reversed this. The LORD preserved David wherever he went. 1 Kings 10:16; 1 Kings 14:26; 2 Kings 11:10; 14. ], "Whether they [the gold shields, 2 Samuel 8:7] were made of solid gold or simply bossed with gold or supplied with golden fittings is impossible to say (contrast the shields mentioned in 1 Kings 10:16-17; 1 Kings 14:26)." This is a considerable time after the destruction of antichrist. Though both groups came to Canaan from Crete, the Cherethites were native Cretans and the Pelethites had only passed through Crete during their migration from their original homeland, Greece. Thirdly, it is opposed to the title afterwards given to the body-guard, (2 Kings 11:4, 2 Kings 11:19), in which the Cari correspond to the Crethi, as in 2 Samuel 20:23, and ha-razim to the Pelethi; so that the term pelethi can no more signify a particular tribe than the term razim can. And then he smote Moab, [and they became the tributaries of David, and then he moved a little north from there, and came against Hadadezer,] and recovered the border as far as the Euphrates. (h) The Cherethites and Pelethites were as the king's guard, and had charge of his person. And God, who is looking onward to this, had before His mind the one person who is the pivot on which turns our blessing, not only for eternity, but also for His people and all the earth in time. "And the king lamented over Abner," just as suitably as he had before lamented over Jonathan and his father, "and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth? But if David and his men come to Jerusalem, the stronghold of Zion was still in the hand of the enemy, as it had hitherto been. And when they came to Nachon's threshing-floor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it. And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord Jehovah; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Let me run now and take the news to the king, how the LORD has avenged him of his enemies.". 2 Samuel 18:8 - Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary - StudyLight.org It does not matter where we search; the darker the time, the plainer it appears. And David's sons were ("confidants"); not priests, domestic priests, court chaplains, or spiritual advisers, as Gesenius, De Wette, and others maintain, but, as the title is explained in the corresponding text of the Chronicles, when the title had become obsolete, "the first at the hand (or side) of the king." Nearness to God was greater in David's eyes at that moment than the throne that God had given him; and David rightly judged. "And David was displeased, because Jehovah had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perez-uzzah to this day. 2 Samuel Commentary - Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible He also formed a personal bodyguard of Cherethites and Pelethites, people who lived among the Philistines and who had joined Davids fighting force during the years David lived in that area. Footnotes. There had He anointed His Son. But want of faith dulls the force of what we know, and makes it as if we knew it not. and v hat is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? Yea, He must also make David a house settled in the throne of Jehovah before his son could build Him a house. Not every pagan nation surrounding Israel was hostile to Israel or their God, and David did not treat them as if they were hostile. 2 Samuel Chapter 8 | Shmoop But when you have got the sense of what Christ is, when you are filled with His glory and with His love, then not to enter into His feelings toward the church would be the most unnatural of all things. The total defeat of Absalom's party and their dispersion (v. 6-8). He never perverted justice through favour or affection, nor had respect of persons in judgment. The king's place in Israel for all that was of no less, but rather of the deepest, interest and importance, and for this simple reason: had he gone right, all would have been right for and with the people. What an awful issue for the king, with his sons, after consulting through a witch the dead prophet whom he had failed to heed whilst he was alive! (II Samuel 8; I Chronicles 18) Getting a promise from God like David did ( The Davidic Covenant - II Samuel 7:1-17; I Chronicles 17:1-15) can give you a good bit of confidence. A Place of One's Own ( 2 Samuel 5:1-25) 6. [Note: Gleason Archer, Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, p. 184; Keil and Delitzsch, p. Click to enable/disable Google Analytics tracking. (s. v. ), to the effect that the city of Gaza was once called Minoa, from Minos a king of Crete, - statements which, according to the correct estimate of Strauss (l.c. ), "have all so evidently the marks of fables that they hardly merit discussion," at all events when opposed to the historical testimony of the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 2:23; Amos 9:7), to the effect that the Philistines sprang from Caphtor. b. David administered judgment and justice to all his people: This shows that David was a great king to his own people, not only against neighboring nations. But this is never a reason either to justify you nor the smallest excuse for being displeased with God. David did everything but build it, really. The next chapter (2 Samuel 11:1-27) introduces the first dark shade since David came to the throne. Still the great general principle that applied of old will apply yet more by and by. 2 Samuel 15:18; 2 Samuel 20:7; 2 Samuel 20:23; 1 Kings 1:38; 1 Kings 1:44; 1 Chronicles 18:17). 1 Kings 8:1, 6, 10-11, 22-30, 41-43; 1 Kings 17 Commentary. and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and Pelethites. and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and Pelethites, and the sons of David, [were] princes, or chief rulers; or priests, who according to Gussetius F13 brought the offerings or presents to the king, and did that to him the priests did to the Lord. "And now, O Jehovah God, thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant: therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Jehovah God, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.". David here stands as a solemn instance that he who is so quick to see sin in another may be utterly blind to his own grave and unjudged iniquity. What Does It Mean to Be "Spiritually Blind"? It was the beginning of their history, when all looked fair. 360.] "Who am I, O Lord Jehovah? 2 Samuel 7 Bible Commentary - Matthew Henry (concise) - Christianity "And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people. For His grace to himself and his house he has now to bless Him. There was not a right feeling towards her husband in this transaction (and how near it was to his heart! Clarke's Commentary Verse 2 Samuel 8:18. This speaks his close application to business; also his readiness to admit all addresses and appeals made to him. The prophet is as much dependent on God for light as any other person, and it is an instructive thing that we should have the mistakes of a prophet, or it may be of a greater than the prophet: I speak of course even of an apostle himself; and, without entering on doubtful points, I do say it is perfectly certain that, great as was the apostle Peter, he made not only mistakes, but some of the most serious kind. ", "And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man." Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away." A Study of 2 Samuel | Bible.org In Saul's time we read of no other great officer than Abner, that was captain of the host. Herein he was a type of Christ. After this it came to pass that David attacked the Philistines and subdued them. The Cherethites and Pelethites: These were hired soldiers from Crete. There are two mountains that have a place proper to them the mount of law and the mount of grace. In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?" 2 Samuel 8:18 - Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary - StudyLight.org Nevertheless God's firm purpose stands; and now we are about to read in the second Book of Samuel how from this wretchedly low estate God raises up the man that He had chosen from the sheep-cotes to feed Israel like a flock, until he is established firmly by grace in Zion. 7). i. 2 Samuel 8 Bible Commentary - Matthew Henry (complete) - Christianity Another Book told us of the Philistines doing so, and how God bore pitifully with these heathen who knew no better. "So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David." "Moab.". David could not care for so many horses while on a military campaign and he could not give them back to the enemy. For in fact there is no occasion where we more need the sustaining of God than in His very worship. "Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. Nor does David for his part trouble himself about the issue. He forced them to lie on the ground. Faith can afford to be generous in a way and degree that puts the finest feelings of nature to the blush. We see it in David himself. He also put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became Davids servants. b. And then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to greet him, and to bless him, because he had been fighting against Hadadezer. But the fact is that the faith in Christendom as to the judgment of the quick is vague, uncertain, and unreal. David, however low he had fallen, was a real man of God; not only the object of grace, but as a rule one deeply exercised and habitually formed by it. (k) Ut supra. They were taken up from the depth of ruin, and after that estate Zion was won. 2 Samuel 18:8 - Bible Hub Also from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took a large amount of bronze. We have here, I. David's preparations to engage the rebels (v. 1-5). And I am this day weak." Had the king of Israel been faithful in his office before God, there had always been an unfailing supply of blessing for the children of Israel as a people. Those shields of gold were set in the temple and testified to Gods work in and through David. By proceeding, you consent to our cookie usage. 2 Samuel 8:18 KJV - And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was - Bible Gateway (2 Samuel 18:8). s. But faith is more than upright, and can readily afford to be generous. Also Jehovah telleth thee that he will make thee an house. 2 Samuel . Some believe that the sons of David actually performed priestly functions, but the Bible has no record of any such thing. Five major conflicts and reversals of fortune occur in chapters 2-8. Of this He proceeds to assure the king. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. But soon we find Abner and Joab coming into opposition and collision. a. Thes. 5 And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. a. Davids army, under the control of Joab, gained a notable victory over Edom, though the victory was not easily won. "And all the people wept again over him. And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder; Zadok, and Ahimelech were the priests; and Seraiah was the scribe ( 2 Samuel 8:12-17 ); So these were really the men who served with David in his kingdom and thus the kingdom was established under David's reign. . And David made himself a name when he returned from killing eighteen thousand Syrians in the Valley of Salt. II. (2 Samuel 10:1-19) This was completely misunderstood. Benson Commentary 2 Samuel 8:18. His trust was in God instead (Psalm 20:7 and 33:16-17). I take for granted that the Chaldee paraphrast is correct. In the early days of the monarchy the word kohen had not quite lost its etymological sense, from the root meaning to minister, or manage affairs, though in later times its technical sense alone survived. God's intention was to set up a king according to His own mind. But God was looking onward to a better than David; and now we have seen that, even after David was designated to the kingdom and anointed for it, God did not set aside at once the miserable consequences of man's choice. "Thus he fulfilled Balaam's . i. Abarbinel thinks that this respects not only David's sons, but Benaiah, and the family of the Cherethites and Pelethites, who had none of them particular posts assigned them, which were settled and known, as those before mentioned had, but were always near at hand, to do whatsoever the king commanded them; and which seems better to agree with the literal order and construction of the words; which are: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and Pelethites. Davids kingdom stretched from the Gulf of Aqabah and the Wadi of Egypt, on the southeast and southwest respectively, to the Euphrates River on the northeast. For such was His holy pleasure, that not David but David's son should build the house of Jehovah. Joab took them, and, as we know, spite of the Syrians who sought to shield them. Two civil officers: one that was recorder, or remembrancer, to put the king in mind of business in its season (he was prime minister of state, yet not entrusted with the custody of the king's conscience, as they say of our lord chancellor, but only of the king's memory; let the king be put in mind of business and he would do it himself); another that was scribe, or secretary of state, that drew up public orders and despatches, and recorded judgments given. When David became king, the Philistines were taking territory from God's people. a. the confession comes out, which must have been as true of the dead as of the living, that all through they knew well enough what the will of Jehovah was. 2. Forcing them down to the ground, he measured them off with a line. Comment. And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for Jehovah is with thee." Chapter 8 evidently describes the conquest of Davids enemies that took place before David brought the ark into Jerusalem (ch. I am not at all speaking about the Israelites individually viewed. At any rate it is far from me to set up for having the competency, if indeed any man could have it, to run the analogy with a closeness which is not warranted by the direct instructions of the Lord elsewhere. It may fall on you through ever such a wrong in another. sect.4.) [Note: See my note on 10:15-19. But now, whether by wicked men with David, or by wicked men against him, or by the open enemies of the Lord, in all these various ways God had wrought and disposed of the different men who laid claim to the throne one after another; and lo! 2 Samuel - Matthew Henry's Commentary - Bible Gateway Such grace was indeed a great thing to say and do, but not too much. (2 Samuel 5:1-25) Now they could see that they are his bone and his flesh. The Cherethites and the Pelethites The former supposed to be those who accompanied David when he fled from Saul; the latter, those who came to him at Ziklag. At the same time some of the Gentiles come to bless the king with presents, and all those rarities that befit the character of the kingdom; in short power, glory, and blessing fill the scene. "I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour." And king David himself followed the bier. It was sin to have asked a king, but it was grace on God's part to give it. He had no respect of persons in judgment. The fact is that Israel had acted without God's word from the first even David himself; and if David was the one whom it least of all became, we must not be surprised if he also had the sorest feeling about the Lord. When it was a question of opposing the enemy, he felt that he needed the guidance of God; but when the point was the establishment of Jehovah's ark in its due place in Israel, how could it be necessary to ask Jehovah about it? And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel?" 2. He judged truly even of his own commander-in-chief, as one may call Joab at least the one that was to be so formally before long. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 8:15-18 David neither did wrong, nor denied or delayed right to any. Joab was a man as far as possible from the faith of David, and to suffer the prominence and allow the influence of such a chief was one of the fatal weaknesses of David's kingdom that is, of God's kingdom in the hands of man, not merely man's kingdom in the presence of God's anointed, but, as has been remarked, God's kingdom confided to man, and there failing. [Note: Abraham Malamat, "The Kingdom of David & Solomon in its Contact with Egypt and Aram Naharaim," Biblical Archaeologist 21:4 (1958):100.]. It is a human inference drawn from the fact of His divine glory. [Note: G. J. Wenham, "Were Davids Sons Priests?" "The recorder (Heb. There is nothing stable short of life in the soul. And hence it is that this book is in my judgment a very full and exact type in its grand features, without straining any part of it, or pretending that everything has an answer in the circumstances of that day.
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