--- title: "Bullinger" description: "charged. Compare Joshua 1:6-9 . the way of all the earth. Compare Joshua 23:14 . strong = resolute. Necessary advice for Solomon = the peaceable. man." image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/1-kings/2" --- **charged.** Compare [Joshua 1:6-9](../../../kjv/joshua/1/6-9) . **the way of all the earth.** Compare [Joshua 23:14](../../../kjv/joshua/23/14) . **strong** = resolute. Necessary advice for Solomon = the peaceable. **man.** Hebrew. *ish* . App-14 . **charge.** Compare [Leviticus 8:35](../../../kjv/leviticus/8/35) ; [Leviticus 18:30](../../../kjv/leviticus/18/30) . **the Lord.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 . **God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* **to keep.** Some codices, with three early printed editions, read "and to keep", thus enlarging the Figure of speech *Polysyndeton* ( App-6 ) in this verse. **as it is written.** Compare [Deuteronomy 17:18](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/17/18) , [Deuteronomy 17:19](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/17/19) . [Joshua 1:6-8](../../../kjv/joshua/1/6-8) . Note the emphasis laid on God's Word written. See note on [Exodus 17:14](../../../kjv/exodus/17/14) , and App-47 . **prosper** do wisely. **continue** = establish. **children** = sons. Compare [2 Samuel 7:8](../../../kjv/2-samuel/7/8) , [2 Samuel 7:11-16](../../../kjv/2-samuel/7/11-16) . **soul** . Hebrew. *nephesh* . App-13 . **fail** = be cut off from. **Joab. Zeruiah.** David's own sister's son. **did to me.** David does not mention the worst sin, the death of Absalom. **Abner.** Compare [2 Samuel 3:27](../../../kjv/2-samuel/3/27) , [2 Samuel 3:39](../../../kjv/2-samuel/3/39) . **Amasa.** Compare [2 Samuel 20:9-11](../../../kjv/2-samuel/20/9-11) . [1 Chronicles 2:17](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/2/17) . **the grave.** Hebrew. *Sheol* . App-35 . Note "the", not "a". Compare [1 Kings 2:9](../../../kjv/1-kings/2/9) . **Barzillai.** Compare [2 Samuel 17:27](../../../kjv/2-samuel/17/27) , [2 Samuel 17:29](../../../kjv/2-samuel/17/29) ; [2 Samuel 19:31](../../../kjv/2-samuel/19/31) , [2 Samuel 19:32](../../../kjv/2-samuel/19/32) . **Shimei.** Compare [2 Samuel 16:5-13](../../../kjv/2-samuel/16/5-13) ; [2 Samuel 19:18-23](../../../kjv/2-samuel/19/18-23) . **I sware.** Compare 2Sa. 19-23. **for.** Note the parenthesis as indicated. Figure of speech *Epitrechon* . **but** = neither, as in [Psalms 38:1](../../../kjv/psalms/38/1) , the second negative being omitted, as is frequently the case. Literally "and [not]". See [Psalms 9:18](../../../kjv/psalms/9/18) (Revised Version nor); 1Ki 38:1 (neither); 1Ki 75:5 .[Proverbs 24:12](../../../kjv/proverbs/24/12) ; [Proverbs 25:27](../../../kjv/proverbs/25/27) . [Isaiah 38:18](../../../kjv/isaiah/38/18) . The Ellipsis must be supplied here, as it is in the above passages. The Hebrew *Vav* (?) is *disjunctive* (as well as conjunctive), and is frequently translated "or" (see note on [Judges 11:31](../../../kjv/judges/11/31) ), and with a negative "nor" and "neither", as it should be here, &c. Solomon obeyed David's former alternative and did not "hold him guiltless" ([1 Kings 2:36](../../../kjv/1-kings/2/36) ); but punished him for a fresh offence (verses: [1 Kings 2:42-46](../../../kjv/1-kings/2/42-46) ). **she said.** Some codices, with two early printed editions Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, add "unto him". **deny me not.** Hebrew idiom = "turn not away my face": face being put by Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Part) for the whole person. App-6 . **say thee nay** = turn away thy face. See note above. **Well** = good. **seat** = throne. **be given.** The verb is masculine, as it usually is when a woman acts a man's part. **life** = soul. Hebrew. *nephesh* . App-13 . **as** = according as. **promised** . Compare [2 Samuel 7:12](../../../kjv/2-samuel/7/12) , [2 Samuel 7:13](../../../kjv/2-samuel/7/13) . **Anathoth.** Compare [Joshua 21:18](../../../kjv/joshua/21/18) . **fields** . Some codices, with three early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "estate". **worthy of death.** Hebrew idiom = "a man of death" = doomed to death. Hebrew. *'ish.* App-14 . **Lord GOD** = Adonai Jehovah. App-4 . (2). **fulfil** . Compare [1 Samuel 2:31](../../../kjv/1-samuel/2/31) , [1 Samuel 2:36](../../../kjv/1-samuel/2/36) . Already partly fulfilled ([1 Samuel 4:11](../../../kjv/1-samuel/4/11) ; and now, wholly, in [1 Kings 2:35](../../../kjv/1-kings/2/35) ). **Shiloh.** Compare [1 Samuel 2:35](../../../kjv/1-samuel/2/35) . **Absalom.** Syriac and Vulgate read "Solomon". **tabernacle.** Hebrew. *'ohel* , tent. See App-40 . **Nay; but. here.** The famous Mugah codex quoted in the Massorah adds "to him". App-30 . **men.** Hebrew. *'enosh* . App-14 . **any whither.** Figure of speech *Paronomasia* . App-6 . Hebrew. *'aneh va anah* = hither and thither. **on the day.** Same as [Genesis 2:17](../../../kjv/genesis/2/17) . Here several days must have elapsed. **shalt surely die.** Figure of speech *Polyptoton* . App-6 . Hebrew "a dying thou shalt die", as in [Genesis 2:17](../../../kjv/genesis/2/17) . **thine own head** = thyself, "head" being put by Fig, *Synecdoche* (of the Part) for the whole person. App-6 . See note on [1 Kings 2:9](../../../kjv/1-kings/2/9) . **Gath.** Sixty-four miles away. 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