2 Samuel 19:28

For all of my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
father’s	אָבִ֗י 'a.Vi	H1	father · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix
house	בֵּ֣ית beit	H1004	a house (in the greatest variation of applications · noun, common masculine singular construct
but	לֹ֨א lo'	H3808	not (the simple or abs. negation) · negative particle
dead	מָ֙וֶת֙ ma.vet	H4194	death (natural or violent) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
men	אַנְשֵׁי 'an.shei-	H582	a man in general (singly or collectively) · noun, common masculine plural construct
lord	לַאדֹנִ֣י la.do.Ni	H113	sovereign · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix
king	הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ ha.Me.lekh	H4428	a king · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
set	וַתָּ֙שֶׁת֙ va.Ta.shet	H7896	to place (in a very wide application) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular
servant	עַבְדְּךָ֔ 'av.de.Kha	H5650	a servant · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
eat	בְּאֹכְלֵ֖י be.'o.khe.Lei	H398	to eat (literally or figuratively) · preposition + verb, qal active participle, masculine plural construct
table	שֻׁלְחָנֶ֑ךָ shul.cha.Ne.kha	H7979	a table (as spread out) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
right	צְדָקָ֔ה tze.da.Kah	H6666	rightness (abstractly) · noun, common feminine singular absolute
have	יֶּשׁ yesh-	H3426	there is or are (or any other form of the verb to be · cardinal number, both genders singular absolute
cry	וְלִזְעֹ֥ק ve.liz.'Ok	H2199	to shriek (from anguish or danger) · conjunction + preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
king	הַמֶּֽלֶךְ ha.Me.lekh	H4428	a king · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

2 Samuel 9:13 So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king’s table; and was lame on both his feet.
2 Samuel 9:10 Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master’s son may h…
Genesis 32:10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed o…
1 Samuel 26:16 This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD’s anoin…
2 Samuel 9:7-8 And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father’s sake, and will restore thee all the land o…
2 Samuel 21:6-9 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the…
2 Kings 8:3 And it came to pass at the seven years’ end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 19:24-30

The day of David's return was a day of bringing to remembrance, a day of account, in which what had passed in his flight was called over again; among other things, after the case of Shimei, that of Mephibosheth comes to be enquired into, and he himself brings it on. I. He went down in the crowd to meet the king (Sa2 19:24), and as a proof of the sincerity of his joy in the king's return, we are here told what a true mourner he was for the king's banishment. During that melancholy time, when one of the greatest glories of Israel had departed, Mephibosheth continued in a very melancholy state. He was never trimmed, nor put on clean linen, but wholly neglected himself, as one abandoned to grief…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Samuel 19:24

Mephibosheth . . . came down to meet the king--The reception given to Mephibosheth was less creditable to David. The sincerity of that prince's grief for the misfortunes of the king cannot be doubted. He had neither dressed his feet--not taken the bath, nor trimmed his beard--The Hebrews cut off the hair on the upper lip (see on Lev 13:45), and cheeks, but carefully cherished it on the chin from ear to ear. Besides dyeing it black or red colors, which, however, is the exception, and not the rule in the East, there are various modes of trimming it: they train it into a massy, bushy form, swelling and round; or they terminate it like a pyramid, in a sharp point. Whatever the mode, it is al…

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Adam Clarke on 2 Samuel 19:27

The king is as an angel of God - As if he had said, I state my case plainly and without guile; thou art too wise not to penetrate the motives from which both myself and servant have acted. I shall make no appeal; with whatsoever thou determinest I shall rest contented.

John Gill on 2 Samuel 19:28

For all of my, father's house were but dead men before my lord the king,.... Or "men of death" (m); worthy of death, not on account of Saul's persecution, for which his family did not deserve to suffer; rather for the attempt of Ishbosheth to get the kingdom from him, which might be deemed treason, and so the family was tainted for it; though the sense may be only this, that their lives lay at his mercy, and that if he had dealt with rigour and severity towards them, as was usual for princes to do towards the family of their predecessors, who had any claim to the kingdom, put them to death, this would have been their case: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that eat at thine own tabl…

Dictionary and topics

Saul — Asked for. (1.) A king of Edom (Gen. 36:37, 38); called Shaul in 1 Chr. 1:48. (2.) The son of Kish (probably his only son, and a child of prayer, “asked for”), of the tribe of Benjamin, the first…
Mephibosheth · .His ingratitu — .His ingratitu
Rashness · .David, in his generosity to Ziba — .David, in his generosity to Ziba
Ziba · His faithfulness to David — His faithfulness to David

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

2 Samuel 19:28

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 19:24-30

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Samuel 19:24

Adam Clarke on 2 Samuel 19:27

John Gill on 2 Samuel 19:28

Dictionary and topics

2 Samuel 19:28

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 19:24-30

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Samuel 19:24

Adam Clarke on 2 Samuel 19:27

John Gill on 2 Samuel 19:28

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on 2 Samuel 19:24-30

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Samuel 19:27-28

Rashi on 2 Samuel 19:27