--- title: "Bullinger" description: "Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6 . the LORD . Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 . feed = feed as a shepherd. made a league = solemnised a covenant" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/2-samuel/5" --- **Behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.* *App-6* *.* **the LORD** . Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 . **feed** = feed as a shepherd. **made a league** = solemnised a covenant. anointed David. See note on [1 Samuel 16:13](../../../kjv/1-samuel/16/13) . **men.** Hebrew. *'enosh.* App-14 . **saying** . What they said must be rendered thus "Thou shalt not come in hither, for the blind and the lame shall drive thee away [by saying]`David shall not come in hither. ' " **the strong hold of Zion** : i.e. the hill of Ophel, immediately south of Moriah. **Zion.** First occurrence. Occurs 154 times in O.T. (7 x 22, App-10 ); used later (especially in prophecy) of the whole city. See App-68 . **the City of David** . Which is on Jebus, therefore, and not on the west side. First occurrence. Occurs forty times in O.T. Used of Zion five times ( 2Sa 5:7 , [2 Samuel 5:9](../../../kjv/2-samuel/5/9) ; 1Ki 8:1 . [1 Chronicles 11:5](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/11/5) . [2 Chronicles 5:2](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/5/2) ). **to the gutter** = by (or through) the *zinnor,* a rock-cut passage from the lower Gihon or En-Rogel (now the Virgin's Fount on east of Ophel), leading up into the *city* and supplying water. Discovered by Sir Charles Warren. Compare note on [Nehemiah 2:13](../../../kjv/nehemiah/2/13) , &c. **soul** . Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 . **he shall be chief and captain** . These words are supplied from [1 Chronicles 11:6](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/11/6) , which tells that Joab got up the *zinnor* first. Probably revealed to him (or to David) by Araunah, who (though a Jebusite) was not slain, but is found, later on, owning property quite near ([2 Samuel 24:16](../../../kjv/2-samuel/24/16) ). Josephus says Araunah was a friend of David's. **Wherefore** = Because. **fort** = the "strong hold" of [2 Samuel 5:7](../../../kjv/2-samuel/5/7) . Citadel. **round about** = the wall, which was continued by Solomon ([1 Kings 9:15](../../../kjv/1-kings/9/15) , [1 Kings 9:24](../../../kjv/1-kings/9/24) ; [1 Kings 11:27](../../../kjv/1-kings/11/27) ), afterward by Hezekiah ([2 Chronicles 32:5](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/32/5) ), and extended by Manasseh ([2 Chronicles 33:14](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/33/14) ). **Millo** = the Millo, or the filling up: i.e. of the valley between Moriah and Jebus. **went on** = went on and on. **the LORD God of hosts** = Jehovah *Elohim zebaioth.* App-4 . See note on [1 Samuel 1:3](../../../kjv/1-samuel/1/3) . **Hiram** . Not the Hiram of [1 Kings 9:11](../../../kjv/1-kings/9/11) , which was sixty years later. Josephus says he was his father. Compare [2 Chronicles 2:13](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/2/13) . [1 Kings 5:1](../../../kjv/1-kings/5/1) . **Tyre** . Israel had no war with Phoenicians. Asher failed to expel them ([Judges 1:31](../../../kjv/judges/1/31) ). **out of** . Perhaps this should read "into", as in [1 Chronicles 14:3](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/14/3) . But both accounts are independent and complementary. **Eliada** = Another name, Beeliada. See note on [1 Chronicles 14:7](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/14/7) . **seek** . Compare [1 Samuel 26:2](../../../kjv/1-samuel/26/2) . **hold** . Probably Adullam. [1 Samuel 22:1](../../../kjv/1-samuel/22/1) . Not Zion, because he went "down "to it. **Rephaim** . The descendants of the Nephilim through one "Rapha". See App-23 and App-25 . Compare [1 Chronicles 11:15](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/11/15) . **the LORD** . Hebrew. *Jehovah.* ( App-4 .). See note on Chron. [2 Samuel 14:10](../../../kjv/2-samuel/14/10) . **broken forth** . Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.* App-6 . **as** = according as. **Geba** . Abbreviation for "Gibeon". 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