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2 Samuel 9:4

in 2 Samuel 9

“Where is he?” replied the king. And Ziba said, “Indeed, he is in Lo-debar at the house of Machir son of Ammiel.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the king said unto him, Where is he? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo-debar.

KJV

And the king said unto him, Where is he? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, in Lo–debar.

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This verse in 2 Samuel 9

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
And the king said unto him, where is he?.... In what part of the land, city, or town, does he dwell? and Ziba said unto the king, behold, he is in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel; a descendant of Machir, the son of Manasseh, to whom the land of Gilead was given, which lay on the other side Jordan: in Lodebar; a place in that country, perhaps the same with Debir in Jos 13:

This site's exposition

shew the kindness of God unto him

on 2 Samuel 9:3-4

David asks to shew the kindness of God unto him, the only place that exact phrase occurs in the Old Testament, and Gill and Clarke both read it as kindness measured by God's own scale rather than an ordinary king's favor. Ziba answers with the one fact David needs, that Jonathan has a son, lame on his feet, living far off in Lo-debar in Gilead. The house of Saul that seemed to end in the wars of the earlier chapters turns out to have one branch still standing.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

David reaped the fruit of his kindness to Mephibosheth, for, when he fled from Absalom, Machir, the son of Ammiel, was one of those who were most liberal in providing him and his army with necessaries (marginal reference). According to 1Ch 3:5, Ammiel (called inversely Eliam, 2Sa 11:3) was the father of Bath-sheba. If this be the same Ammiel, Machir would be Bath-sheba’s brother. However, the name is not a very uncommon one (Num 13:12; 1Ch 26:5, etc.).

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul--On inquiry, Saul's land steward was found, who gave information that there still survived Mephibosheth, a son of Jonathan who was five years old at his father's death, and whom David, then wandering in exile, had never seen.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Lo-debar - Supposed to have been situated beyond Jordan; but there is nothing certain known concerning it.

The words behind it

17 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.

  • וַיֹּֽאמֶר־and he said

    vaiyomer-H559 →5305 times

  • ל֥וֹto <the> him

    lo

  • הַמֶּ֖לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • אֵיפֹ֣הwhere?

    ʾeifohH375 →

  • ה֑וּא[is] he

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • וַיֹּ֤אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • צִיבָא֙Ziba

    tziva'H6717 →16 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַמֶּ֔לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • הִנֵּה־here!

    hineh-H2009 →843 times

  • ה֗וּאhe

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • בֵּ֛ית[is] [the] house of

    beitH1004 →2046 times

  • מָכִ֥ירMakir

    makhirH4353 →22 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • עַמִּיאֵ֖לAmmiel

    ʾamielH5988 →6 times

  • בְּל֥וֹin Lo

    beloH3810 →8 times

  • דְבָֽר׃Debar

    devarH3810 →8 times

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

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About 2 Samuel

David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
2 Samuel: the study guide →Read 2 Samuel 9 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.

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