2 Samuel 16:8 BSB — MannaFest

2 Samuel 16:8

The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!”

BSB

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ASV

Jehovah hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and Jehovah hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son; and, behold, thou art taken in thine own mischief, because thou art a man of blood.

KJV

The Lord hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the Lord hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.

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Commentary

4 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

All the blood of the house of Saul - Shimei probably put to David’s account the death of Saul, and Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchishua, slain in battle by the Philistines with whom David was in league; of Ish-bosheth, slain in consequence of David’s league with Abner; that of Abner himself, which he attributed to David’s secret orders; and all the 360 slain in the battle between Joab and Abner 2Sa 2:31. Some, too, think that the death of seven men of Saul’s immediate family 2Sa 21:8 had occurred before David’s flight, and was referred to by Shimei.

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The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

The blood of Abner and Ishbosheth; which he imputes to David, as if they had been killed by David's contrivance: or, 2. the death of Saul's seven sons, chap. xxi, 8, which, though related after this, seems to have been done before. Art taken - The same mischief thou didst bring upon others, is now returned upon thy own head.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It is well for us that men are not to be our judges, but he whose judgment is according to truth. The blood of the house of Saul is here most unjustly charged upon David, [1.] As that which gave him his character, and denominated him a bloody man and a man of Belial,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

It is, however, only the confines of the district that are here meant. Shimei, . . . a man of the family of Saul--The misfortune of his family, and the occupation by David of what they considered their rightful possessions, afforded a natural, if not a justifiable cause for this ebullition of rude insults and violence.

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הֵשִׁיב֩	he.Shiv	he has brought back	H7725 →
עָלֶ֨יךָ	'a.Lei.kha	on you	H5921 →
יְהוָ֜ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
כֹּ֣ל׀	kol	all	H3605 →
דְּמֵ֣י	de.Mei	[the] blood<s> of	H1818 →
בֵית־	veit-	[the] house of	H1004 →
שָׁא֗וּל	sha.'Ul	Saul	H7586 →
אֲשֶׁ֤ר	'a.Sher	whom	H834 →
מָלַ֙כְתָּ֙	ma.Lakh.ta	you have reigned	H4427 →
תַּחְתָּ֔יו	tach.to	in place of him	H8478 →
וַיִּתֵּ֤ן	vai.yi.Ten	and he has given	H5414 →
יְהוָה֙	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַמְּלוּכָ֔ה	ha.me.lu.Khah	the kingship	H4410 →
בְּיַ֖ד	be.Yad	in [the] hand of	H3027 →
אַבְשָׁל֣וֹם	'av.sha.Lom	Absalom	H53 →
בְּנֶ֑ךָ	be.Ne.kha	son your	H1121 →
וְהִנְּךָ֙	ve.hi.ne.Kha	and here you	H2005 →
בְּרָ֣עָתֶ֔ךָ	be.Ra.'a.Te.kha	[are] in calamity your	H7451 →
כִּ֛י	ki	for	H3588 →
אִ֥ישׁ	'ish	[are] a man of	H376 →
דָּמִ֖ים	da.Mim	blood<s>	H1818 →
אָֽתָּה׃	'A.tah	you	H859 →

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2 Samuel 1:16
For David had said to the Amalekite, “Your blood be on your own head because your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I killed the LORD’s anointed.’”
leads to
- Matthew 27:25
  All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
- Luke 19:22
  His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did…
- 1 Samuel 26:9
  But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can lift a hand against the LORD’s anointed and be guiltless?”
- Romans 3:19
  Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
- Leviticus 20:9
  If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood shall be upon him.
Through
Judges 9:24
in order that the crime against the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come to justice and their blood be avenged on their brother Abimelech and on the leaders of Shechem, who had helped him…
leads to
- 1 Kings 2:32
  The LORD will bring his bloodshed back upon his own head, for without the knowledge of my father David he struck down two men more righteous and better than he when he put to…
- Psalms 7:16
  His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.
- Esther 9:25
  But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his…

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