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**Title.** Michtam. App-65 .
**when,** &c. See [2 Samuel 8:13-14](../../../kjv/2-samuel/8/13-14) .
**Aram-naharaim, &c.** = Mesopotamia or Syria. See [1 Chronicles 18:5](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/18/5) , and note below on "twelve thousand".
**twelve thousand.** In [2 Samuel 8:13](../../../kjv/2-samuel/8/13) , and [1 Chronicles 18:12](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/18/12) , it is David's and Abishai's exploit, which was 18,000. Here, it is Joab's exploit, and his share was 12,000, but he took six months longer in finishing up his task ([1 Kings 11:15](../../../kjv/1-kings/11/15) , [1 Kings 11:16](../../../kjv/1-kings/11/16) ). David's 22,000 in [1 Chronicles 18:5](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/18/5) were in a Syrian campaign. See notes on [2 Samuel 8:12](../../../kjv/2-samuel/8/12) , [2 Samuel 8:13](../../../kjv/2-samuel/8/13) .
**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 .

**broken** = made fissures. Occurs only here.

**shewed = suffered . . . to see.** astonishment: or confusion, or trembling.

**the truth:** or [Thy] faithfulness. Hebrew. *koshet.* Occurs only here in Psalms. Compare [Proverbs 22:21](../../../kjv/proverbs/22/21) = certainty, or exact, precise truth. (No Art.)
**Selah.** Connecting the gift, with the great and important object of it. ( App-66 .)

**hear** = answer.
**me.** Hebrew text reads "us"; but some codices, with four early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "me".

**hath spoken.** Verses 6-9 refer to the promise of the possession of the *whole* of Canaan, confirmed in [2 Samuel 7:10](../../../kjv/2-samuel/7/10) . David here encourages himself by it.
**Shechem . . . Succoth.** West and east of Jordan.

**Gilead . . . Manasseh.** Eastern side.
**Ephraim . . . Judah.** Western side.
**lawgiver.** Compare [Genesis 49:10](../../../kjv/genesis/49/10) . [Numbers 21:18](../../../kjv/numbers/21/18) . [Deuteronomy 33:21](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/33/21) .

**Moab . . . Edom.** Spoken of as the chattels of a conqueror ([2 Samuel 8:12-14](../../../kjv/2-samuel/8/12-14) ).
**washpot** = footbath: i.e. an ignominious vessel.
**cast out my shoe.** Idiom for taking possession.
**Philistia.** Syriac reads "over Philistia".

**the strong city.** Probably Sela or Petra, corresponding with Edom (compare [2 Kings 14:7](../../../kjv/2-kings/14/7) ). David claims the promise of [Numbers 24:18](../../../kjv/numbers/24/18) .

**O God.** Some codices omit "O God".

**help from trouble** = succor out of trouble.
**help of man** = salvation or deliverance of man. Compare "save", [Psalms 60:5](../../../kjv/psalms/60/5) .

**To the chief Musician.** See App-64 .
**upon** = relating to.

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