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**numbered** = mustered, or inspected. David, was now fifty-six.

**succour us out of the city** = come to us out of the city with succour by prayer and counsel.

**heard.** this explains [2 Samuel 18:12](../../../kjv/2-samuel/18/12)

**wood of Ephraim** . Compare [Joshua 17:15-18](../../../kjv/joshua/17/15-18)

**the face** . Figure of speech *Pleonasm,* with *Prosopopceia.* App-6 . devoured. Hebrew "multiplied to devour", to emphasise the great number. Figure of speech *Prosopopaia.* App-6 .

**taken up** . The tradition about his "hair" comes from Josephus [2 Samuel 10:2](../../../kjv/2-samuel/10/2) ).

**man.** Hebrew. *'ish* . App-14 .
**Behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 .

**girdle** . A common present, made of silk, linen, or leather, and worked sometimes in gold. Used for fastening up loose garments.

**our hearing** . See [2 Samuel 18:5](../../../kjv/2-samuel/18/5)
**Beware that none touch** = *Watch* any one who (would touch) the, &c. After "Watch", Septuagint, Aramaean, Syriac, and Vulgate add "for my sake", *as* in [2 Samuel 18:5](../../../kjv/2-samuel/18/5) .

**life** = soul. Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 .

**darts** = clubs. Hebrew. *shebet,* a club *with a* long spike at the end. Still used in Palestine.

**armour** = weapons.
**slew him** . David being fifty-seven years old; Absalom, twenty-four; Solomon, seven.

**heap of stones** . Not a memorial to honour but to warn ([Joshua 7:26](../../../kjv/joshua/7/26) ; [Joshua 8:29](../../../kjv/joshua/8/29) ). See note on [2 Samuel 18:18](../../../kjv/2-samuel/18/18) .

**pillar** . Marks ambition's aim, while the heap of stones ([2 Samuel 18:17](../../../kjv/2-samuel/18/17) ) marks ambition's end.
**no son.** Compare [2 Samuel 14:27](../../../kjv/2-samuel/14/27) . Therefore built, before the first-born; or after his sons ([2 Samuel 14:27](../../../kjv/2-samuel/14/27) ) were dead. place-monument. About a quarter of a mile east of Jerusalem, in the Valley of Jehoshaphat.

**the LORD** . Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .

**between the two gates** . The outer and inner gates of the city wall.

**If he be alone** . Otherwise it would be flight.

**porter** = gatekeeper. No gates without the "Bawab "or gatekeeper. Compare [2 Kings 7:17](../../../kjv/2-kings/7/17) . [1 Chronicles 9:21](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/9/21) .

**good** . Compare [1 Kings 1:42](../../../kjv/1-kings/1/42) .

**Blessed be the LORD thy God** . Some codices, with three early printed editions, reverse the order, thus changing the emphasis, and read: "Jehovah thy God be blessed".
**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim* . App-4 .
**men** . Hebrew. *'enosh.* App-14 .

**and** = even.
**what it was** = what [it meant].

**be as that young man** . Figure of speech *Euphemism.* App-6 .

**my son . . . my son** . Figure of speech *Epizeuxis.* App-6 . for = instead of.

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