--- title: "Bullinger" description: "top. Compare 2 Samuel 15:32 . behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6 . Mephibosheth . Now thirty-one. Born in 965. Compare 2 Samuel 4:4 . bottle" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/2-samuel/16" --- **top.** Compare [2 Samuel 15:32](../../../kjv/2-samuel/15/32) . **behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 . **Mephibosheth** . Now thirty-one. Born in 965. Compare [2 Samuel 4:4](../../../kjv/2-samuel/4/4) . **bottle** = skin-bottle ([Joshua 9:4](../../../kjv/joshua/9/4) .[Matthew 9:17](../../../kjv/matthew/9/17); [Matthew 9:17](../../../kjv/matthew/9/17) ). **wine** . Hebrew. *yayin.* See App-27 . **he said** . This was slander. See [2 Samuel 19:24-30](../../../kjv/2-samuel/19/24-30) , and compare the two Structures. **Bahurim** . On east side of Olivet; "in tribe of Benjamin". **man** . Hebrew. *'ish.* App-14 . **come out** . Figure of speech *Epizeuxis* ( App-6 ): i.e. out -Be-gone! or Get out! **bloody man** = man of bloods (plural denoting much blood). **thou man of Belial** . Compare [1 Samuel 1:16](../../../kjv/1-samuel/1/16) ; [1 Samuel 10:27](../../../kjv/1-samuel/10/27) . **the LORD** . Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 . **dead dog** . Figure of speech *Antiprosopopceia.* App-6 . Compare [1 Samuel 17:43](../../../kjv/1-samuel/17/43) , **let me go** . Compare [1 Samuel 26:8](../../../kjv/1-samuel/26/8) . **What have I to do . . . ?** First occurrence of this idiom. Figure of speech *Erotesis* ( App-6 ). Compare [2 Samuel 19:22](../../../kjv/2-samuel/19/22) . 1Ki 17:18 . [2 Kings 3:13](../../../kjv/2-kings/3/13) .[Matthew 8:29](../../../kjv/matthew/8/29) . Mark I. 24.[Luke 4:34](../../../kjv/luke/4/34) .[John 2:4](../../../kjv/john/2/4) . **sons of Zeruiah** . Compare [2 Samuel 3:39](../../../kjv/2-samuel/3/39) and [Luke 9:55](../../../kjv/luke/9/55) . **let him curse** . Uriah ' s murder closed David's mouth ([2 Samuel 12:9](../../../kjv/2-samuel/12/9) ). **Who shall then . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 . **Behold** . Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 . **life** = soul. Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 . **how much. ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 . **look on mine affliction** . This is one of the eighteen emendations of the *Sopherim* ( App-33 ). The primitive text reads "Jehovah will behold with His eye". This was thought to be too anthropomorphic, and so was altered, and the alteration recorded. **requite** . Compare [Psalms 109:26-28](../../../kjv/psalms/109/26-28) . **men** . Hebrew. *'enosh.* App-14 . **cast dust** . Hebrew "dusted him with dust". Figure of speech *Polyptoton* ( App-6 ): i.e. cast much dust. **weary** . Hebrew. *Ayiphim.* Perhaps the name of a place, or of a caravansary with that name, "for the weary". **choose** = hath chosen. **said** . Instigated by feelings of private revenge against David for his sin with Bath-sheba; she being the daughter of his son, **Eliam** . See [2 Samuel 23:34](../../../kjv/2-samuel/23/34) . Compare [2 Samuel 11:3](../../../kjv/2-samuel/11/3) . Foretold by Nathan ([2 Samuel 12:11](../../../kjv/2-samuel/12/11) , [2 Samuel 12:12](../../../kjv/2-samuel/12/12) ). **the top of the house** . Compare [2 Samuel 11:2](../../../kjv/2-samuel/11/2) . **as** = according as. **oracle** = word. The first occurrence of "oracle" as a rendering (fifteen times) of *dabar,* word. The holy of holies, because there the word of Jehovah was heard. Other occurrences: see [1 Kings 6:5](../../../kjv/1-kings/6/5) , 1Ki 6:16 , [1 Kings 6:19](../../../kjv/1-kings/6/19) , [1 Kings 6:20](../../../kjv/1-kings/6/20) , 1Ki 6:22 , [1 Kings 6:23](../../../kjv/1-kings/6/23) , [1 Kings 6:31](../../../kjv/1-kings/6/31) ; [1 Kings 8:6](../../../kjv/1-kings/8/6) , [1 Kings 8:8](../../../kjv/1-kings/8/8) ; 2Ch 3:16 ; [2 Chronicles 3:4](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/3/4) , 2Ch 3:20 ; 2Ch 5:7 , [2 Chronicles 5:9](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/5/9) . [Psalms 28:2](../../../kjv/psalms/28/2) Compare N.T. usage in plural: [Acts 7:38](../../../kjv/acts/7/38) . [Romans 3:2](../../../kjv/romans/3/2) . Heb 5:12 . 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