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2 Samuel 5:2

in 2 Samuel 5

Even in times past, while Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them back. And to you the LORD said, ‘You will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be ruler over them.’”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was thou that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and Jehovah said to thee, Thou shalt be shepherd of my people Israel, and thou shalt be prince over Israel.

KJV

Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the Lord said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.

This verse in 2 Samuel 5

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Shalt feed - That is, rule them, and take care of them, as a shepherd doth of his sheep, Psalm lxxviii, 70, 71. This expression, he useth to admonish David, that he was not made a king to advance his own glory, but for the good of his people; whom he ought to rule with all tenderness, and to watch over with all diligence.

This site's exposition

thy bone and thy flesh

on 2 Samuel 5:1-3

The tribes call David bone and flesh, then recall that even under Saul it was David who led Israel out and brought them in, the shepherd's work the Lord names next: thou shalt feed my people Israel. Verse 3 is the third stage of one anointing, private at Bethlehem in 1 Samuel 16:13, over Judah alone at 2 Samuel 2:4, and now over all Israel here before the Lord at Hebron. The years between the private anointing and this public throne, spent as a hunted outlaw, are read by later writers as a figure of Christ's own time between his anointing and his coming kingdom, a reading Blaikie draws out in his exposition of the outlaw years.

The words behind it

28 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • גַּם־both

    gam-H1571769 times

  • אֶתְמ֣וֹלyesterday

    ʾetmolH865

  • גַּם־as well as

    gam-H1571769 times

  • שִׁלְשׁ֗וֹםthree days ago

    shilshomH8032

  • בִּהְי֨וֹתwhen was

    bihyotH19613559 times

  • שָׁא֥וּלSaul

    shaulH7586402 times

  • מֶ֙לֶךְ֙king

    melekhH44282525 times

  • עָלֵ֔ינוּover us

    ʾaleinuH59215755 times

  • אַתָּ֗הyou

    ʾatahH8591094 times

  • הָיִ֛יתָyou were

    hayitahH19613559 times

  • הַמּוֹצִ֥יאthe [one who] led out

    hamotzi'H33181067 times

  • וְהַמֵּבִ֖יאand the [one who] brought

    vehamevi'H9352568 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • וַיֹּ֨אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH5595305 times

  • יְהוָ֜הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • לְךָ֗to <the> you

    lekha

  • אַתָּ֨הyou

    ʾatahH8591094 times

  • תִרְעֶ֤הyou will shepherd

    tirehH7462177 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • עַמִּי֙people my

    ʾamiH59711873 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • וְאַתָּ֛הand you

    veatahH8591094 times

  • תִּהְיֶ֥הyou will become

    tihyehH19613559 times

  • לְנָגִ֖יד<into> ruler

    lenagidH505745 times

  • עַל־over

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Israel

    yisraelH34782507 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Matthew 2:6

    ‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of My people…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 34:23–25

      I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd.

    • Micah 5:2

      But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel—One whose origins are of old, from the days…

    • John 7:42

      Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ will come from the line of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”

  • Through

    John 10:11

    I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 40:11

      He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Psalms 23:1

      The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

    • John 10:14–15

      I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me,

    • John 15:13

      Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

    • Revelation 7:17

      For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”

Where this verse is studied

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About 2 Samuel

David Mourns the Death of Absalom — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
David Mourns the Death of Absalom — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and W. G. Blaikie, The Second Book of Samuel (Expositor's Bible).