2 Samuel 5:8 BSB — MannaFest

2 Samuel 5:8

On that day he said, “Whoever attacks the Jebusites must use the water shaft to reach the lame and blind who are despised by David.” That is why it is said, “The blind and the lame will never enter the palace.”

BSB

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ASV

And David said on that day, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites, let him get up to the watercourse, and smite the lame and the blind, that are hated of David’s soul. Wherefore they say, There are the blind and the lame; he cannot come into the house.

KJV

And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David’s soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.

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Commentary

3 voices

Tertullian

AGAINST MARCION 4.36 (220)

For (here is one of Marcion's antitheses): whereas David long ago, in the capture of Zion, was offended by the blind who opposed his admission (into the stronghold). In this respect (I should rather say) that they were a type of people equally blind, who in later times would not admit Christ to be the son of David. So, on the contrary, Christ helped the blind man to show, by this act, that he was not David's son and how different in disposition he was, by being kind to the blind while David ordered them to be slain.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

To the gutter - That is, whosoever scaleth the fort, or getteth up to the top of it, where the gutter was. That are hated - The Jebusites, and the lame, and the blind, Who had probably themselves insulted him, and blasphemed God.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

i. e. “Whosoever will smite the Jebusites, let him reach both the lame and the blind, who are the hated of David’s soul, by the gutter or water-course, and he shall be chief.” The only access to the citadel was where the water had worn a channel (some understand a subterranean channel), and where there was, in consequence, some vegetation in the rock. Joab (see the marginal reference) took the hint, and with all the activity that had distinguished his brother Anabel 2Sa 2:18, climbed up first.

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Original language & word study

25 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
דָּוִ֜ד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
בַּיּ֣וֹם	bai.Yom	on the day	H3117 →
הַה֗וּא	ha.Hu'	<the> that	H1931 →
כָּל־	kol-	any	H3605 →
מַכֵּ֤ה	ma.Keh	[one who] strikes	H5221 →
יְבֻסִי֙	ye.vu.Si	<of> a Jebusite	H2983 →
וְיִגַּ֣ע	ve.yi.Ga'	and let him approach	H5060 →
בַּצִּנּ֔וֹר	ba.tzi.Nor	by the water tunnel	H6794 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	<and> <obj.>	H853 →
הַפִּסְחִים֙	ha.pis.Chim	the lame [people]	H6455 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
הַ֣עִוְרִ֔ים	ha.'iv.Rim	the blind [people]	H5787 →
שְׂנֻאֵ֖י	se.nov	[who are] hated	H8130 →
נֶ֣פֶשׁ	Ne.fesh	of [the] self of	H5315 →
דָּוִ֑ד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
עַל־	'al-	there-	H5921 →
כֵּן֙	ken	-fore	H3651 →
יֹֽאמְר֔וּ	yo.me.Ru	people say	H559 →
עִוֵּ֣ר	'i.Ver	a blind [person]	H5787 →
וּפִסֵּ֔חַ	u.fi.Se.ach	and a lame [person]	H6455 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
יָב֖וֹא	ya.Vo'	he will go	H935 →
אֶל־	'el-	into	H413 →
הַבָּֽיִת׃	ha.Ba.yit	the house	H1004 →

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