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2 Samuel 9:5

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So King David had him brought from the house of Machir son of Ammiel in Lo-debar.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo-debar.

KJV

Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lo–debar.

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This verse in 2 Samuel 9

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

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.

This site's exposition

fetched him out of the house of Machir

on 2 Samuel 9:5-6

David sends for Mephibosheth rather than waiting for him to come, and the young man falls on his face before a king who has every political reason to fear him and none to spare him. His name follows the same pattern Chronicles later shows for Saul's whole household, where Ish-bosheth appears as Esh-baal and Mephibosheth as Merib-baal, and Barnes explains it as the substitution of bosheth, shame, for baal across the line's transmission. The scene answers a fear neither man speaks aloud, for a new king's rivals do not usually live long.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Then King David sent,.... Messengers; it may be Ziba, none being more proper than he that knew him, and where he was: and fetched him out of the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar; they demanded him in the king's name, and being delivered to them, they brought him from thence to Jerusalem.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

And he that watereth shall be watered also himself, Prov. xi. Mephibosheth presented himself to David with all the respect that was due to his character. Lame as he was, he fell on his face, and did homage,

The words behind it

10 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.

  • וַיִּשְׁלַ֖חand he sent

    vaiyishlachH7971 →845 times

  • הַמֶּ֣לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • דָּוִ֑דDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • וַיִּקָּחֵ֗הוּand he took him

    vaiyikachehuH3947 →966 times

  • מִבֵּ֛יתfrom [the] house of

    mibeitH1004 →2046 times

  • מָכִ֥ירMakir

    makhirH4353 →22 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • עַמִּיאֵ֖לAmmiel

    ʾamielH5988 →6 times

  • מִלּ֥וֹfrom Lo

    miloH3810 →8 times

  • דְבָֽר׃Debar

    devarH3810 →8 times

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

Where this verse is studied

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 Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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