2Sa 16:23, 17:14, 23, Job 5:12, 12:16-20, Isa 19:3, 11-25, Jer 8:8-9 | TSK | STEP | as if. oracle of God. Heb. word of God. so was.The first counsel of this sagacious but wicked man to Absalom was more like an oracle of Satan, both for subtlety and atrocity. He advised the shameless measure just detailed, in order to establish Absalom, and to preclude the possibility of a reconciliation with David. The wives of a conquered king were always the property of the conqueror; and in possessing these he appeared to possess the right to the kingdom. all the counsel. both.

2 Samuel 16:23

as if.

oracle of God. Heb. word of God.

so was.The first counsel of this sagacious but wicked man to Absalom was more like an oracle of Satan, both for subtlety and atrocity. He advised the shameless measure just detailed, in order to establish Absalom, and to preclude the possibility of a reconciliation with David. The wives of a conquered king were always the property of the conqueror; and in possessing these he appeared to possess the right to the kingdom.

all the counsel.

17:14,23; Job 5:12; 28:28; Jer 4:22; 8:9; Mt 11:25; Lu 16:8; Ro 1:22

1Co 3:19,20; Jas 3:13-18

both.

15:12; Ec 10:1

2 Samuel 17:14

the Lord.

15:31; Ge 32:28; Ex 9:16; De 2:30; 2Ch 25:16,20

appointed. Heb. commanded.

Ps 33:9,10; La 3:37; Am 9:3

to defeat.

15:34; 16:23; Job 5:12-14; Pr 19:21; 21:30; Isa 8:10; 1Co 1:19,20

1Co 3:19

good counsel.

Lu 16:8

2 Samuel 17:23

saw.

Pr 16:18; 19:3

followed. Heb. done. his city.

15:12

put his household in order. Heb. gave charge concerning hishouse.

2Ki 20:1

and hanged.

15:31; 1Sa 31:4,5; 1Ki 16:18; Job 31:3; Ps 5:10; 55:23; Mt 27:5

Job 5:12

disappointeth.

12:16,17; Ne 4:15; Ps 33:10,11; 37:17; Pr 21:30; Isa 8:10; 19:3

their hands.

Ps 21:11; Isa 37:36; Ac 12:11; 23:12-22

their enterprise. or, anything.

Job 12:16-20

With.

13; Mt 6:13

the deceived.

1Ki 22:22,23; Eze 14:9

2Sa 15:31; 17:14,23; Isa 19:12-14; 29:14; 1Co 1:19,20

2Ch 33:11-14; Jer 52:31-34; Da 2:21; Re 19:16

Jos 10:24,42; 1Sa 17:45,46; Isa 37:36-38; 45:1; Re 17:14; 19:19-21

the speech of the trusty. Heb. the lip of the faithful.

Pr 10:21; 12:19,22

taketh.

24; 17:4; 32:9; 39:17; Isa 3:1-3

Isaiah 19:3

the spirit.This is a prophecy of what took place in Egypt about twenty-two years after the destruction of Sennacherib's army; when, upon the death of Tirhakah, (B.C. 688,) not being able to settle about the succession, they continued for two years in a state of anarchy, confusion, and civil wars; which was followed by the tyranny of twelve princes, who, dividing the country among them, governed it for fifteen years; and at last, by the sole dominion of Psammiticus, which he held for fifty-four years.

1,11-13; 57:16; 1Sa 25:37; Ps 76:12; Jer 46:15; Eze 21:7; 22:14

fail. Heb. be emptied. and I.

14:27; 2Sa 15:31; 17:14,23; 2Ch 25:16-20; Job 5:12,13; Pr 21:30

1Co 3:19,20

destroy. Heb. swallow up.

Ps 107:27; *marg:

and they.

8:19; 15:2; 44:25; 47:12; 1Ch 10:13; Da 2:2; 4:6,7; 5:7

Isaiah 19:11-25

the princes.

3,13; 29:14; 44:25; Job 5:12,13; 12:17; Ps 33:10; Jer 49:7; Eze 7:26

1Co 1:19,20

Zoan.

30:4; Nu 13:22; Ps 78:12,43; Eze 30:14

brutish.

Ps 73:22; 92:6; Pr 30:2; Jer 10:14,21

I am.

Ge 41:38,39; 1Ki 4:30; Ac 7:22

where are thy.

5:21; 47:10-13; Jud 9:38; Jer 2:28; 1Co 1:20

let them.

40:13,14; 41:22,23; 44:7; Job 11:6,7; Ro 11:33,34

princes of Zoan.

11; Ro 1:22

Noph.

Jer 2:16; 46:14,19; Eze 30:13

stay. or, governors. Heb. corners.

Nu 24:17; 1Sa 14:38; *marg:

Zec 10:4; 1Pe 2:7

hath mingled.

2; 29:10,14; 47:10,11; 1Ki 22:20-23; Job 12:16; Eze 14:7-9

2Th 2:11

perverse spirit. Heb. spirit of perverseness. as a.

28:7,8; 29:9; Job 12:25; Jer 25:15,16,27; 48:26

9:14,15; Ps 128:2; Pr 14:23; Hab 3:17; Hag 1:11; 1Th 4:11,12

like.

30:17; Ps 48:6; Jer 30:5-7; 50:37; 51:30; Na 3:13

the shaking.

10:32; 11:15; 30:30-32; Zec 2:9

the land.

36:1; Jer 25:19,27-31; 43:8-13; 44:28-30; Eze 29:6,7

because.

14:24,26,27; 20:2-5; 46:10,11; Da 4:35

that day.

19,21; 2:11; Zec 2:11

shall five.

11:11; 27:13; Ps 68:31

speak.

Zep 3:9

language. Heb. lip.

Ge 11:1

and swear.

45:23,24; De 10:20; Ne 10:29; Jer 12:16

destruction. Heb. Heres, or, the sun.Instead of {heres,} "destruction," which is also the reading of Aquila, Theodotion, and the Syriac, fifteen MSS. and seven editions have {cheres,} "the sun;" agreeable to Symmachus, the Arabic, and Vulagte; while the Chaldee takes in both readings; and the LXX. reads [polis asedek,] "the city of righteousness," a name apparently contrived by the party of Onias, to give credit to his temple. As, however, {heres} in Arabic signifies a lion, Conrad Ikenius is of opinion that the place here mentioned is not Heliopolis, as is commonly supposed, but Leontopolis in the Heliopolitan nome, as it is termed in the letter of Onias to Ptolemy. The whole passage, from this verse to the end, contains a general intimation of the propagation of the knowledge of the true God in Egypt and Syria, under the successors of Alexander, and the early reception of the gospel in the same countries.

66:23; Ge 12:7; 28:18; Ex 24:4; Jos 22:10,26; Zec 6:15; Heb 13:10

for a.

55:13; Jos 4:20,21; 22:27,28,34; 24:26,27

they shall.

4; 20:4; 52:5; Ex 2:23; 3:7; 2Ki 13:4,5; Ps 50:15; Jas 5:4

he shall send.

37:36; 45:21,22; Lu 2:11; Tit 2:13

Lord shall.

11:9; 37:20; 55:5; 1Sa 17:46; 1Ki 8:43; Ps 67:2; 98:2,3; Hab 2:14

Joh 17:3; Ga 4:8,9

and shall.

Zep 3:10; Mal 1:11; Joh 4:21-24; Ro 15:27,28; 1Pe 2:5,9