2 Samuel 3:5

And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David’s wife. These were born to David in Hebron.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
sixth	וְהַשִּׁשִּׁ֣י ve.hash.shi.Shi	H8345	sixth · conjunction + definite article + ordinal number, masculine singular absolute
Ithream	יִתְרְעָ֔ם yit.re.'Am	H3507	Jithream · proper noun, a man's name
Eglah	לְעֶגְלָ֖ה le.'eg.Lah	H5698	Eglah · preposition + proper noun, a woman's name
David’s	דָּוִ֑ד da.Vid	H1732	David · proper noun, a man's name
wife	אֵ֣שֶׁת 'E.shet	H802	a woman · noun, common feminine singular construct
born	יֻלְּד֥וּ yu.le.Du	H3205	to bear young · verb, pual perfect, 3rd person common plural
David	לְדָוִ֖ד le.da.Vid	H1732	David · preposition + proper noun, a man's name
Hebron	בְּחֶבְרֽוֹן be.chev.Ron	H2275	Chebron · preposition + proper noun, a place name

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).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 3:1-6

Here is, I. The struggle that David had with the house of Saul before his settlement in the throne was completed, Sa2 3:1. 1. Both sides contested. Saul's house, though beheaded and diminished, would not fall tamely. It is not strange between them, but one would wonder it should be a long war, when David's house had right on its side, and therefore God on its side; but, though truth and equity will triumph at last, God made for wise and holy ends prolonged the conflict. The length of this war tried the faith and patience of David, and made his establishment at last the more welcome to him. 2. David's side got ground. The house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker, lost places, lost men, sunk in i…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Samuel 3:5

Eglah David's wife--This addition has led many to think that Eglah was another name for Michal, the first and proper wife, who, though she had no family after her insolent ridicule of David (Sa2 6:23), might have had a child before.

Adam Clarke on 2 Samuel 3:1

There was long war - Frequent battles and skirmishes took place between the followers of David and the followers of Ish-bosheth, after the two years mentioned above, to the end of the fifth year, in which Ish-bosheth was slain by Rechab and Baanah.

John Gill on 2 Samuel 3:5

And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife,.... Who also is not spoken of in any other place; only, in a like chronological account as the former, it is remarked that the mother of this only is called David's wife; the reason of which is supposed to be, either because she was a person of no note, and had nothing else to distinguish her; but the same may be said of the two foregoing; or because she was his beloved wife, his heifer, as her name signifies; hence the Jews (y) take her to be Michal his first wife, whom he greatly loved, and who, though she had no children after her contempt of David for playing before the ark, unto the day of her death, yet might have before: but it should be…

Dictionary and topics

David — Beloved, the eighth and youngest son of Jesse, a citizen of Bethlehem. His father seems to have been a man in humble life. His mother’s name is not recorded. Some think she was the Nahash of 2 Sam.…
Eglah — A heifer, one of David’s wives, and mother of Ithream (2 Sam. 3:5; 1 Chr. 3:3). According to a Jewish tradition she was Michal.
Fast — The sole fast required by the law of Moses was that of the great Day of Atonement (q.v.), Lev. 23:26-32. It is called “the fast” (Acts 27:9). The only other mention of a periodical fast in the Old…
Ithream — (abundance of people), son of David, born to him in Hebron, and distinctly specified as the sixth, and as the child of Eglah, David’s wife. (2 Samuel 3:5; 1 Chronicles 3:3)
Eglah · Wife of David — Wife of David
Ithream · General references — General references
Polygamy · David — 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 3:5

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Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 3:1-6

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Adam Clarke on 2 Samuel 3:1

John Gill on 2 Samuel 3:5

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2 Samuel 3:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 3:1-6

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Samuel 3:5

Adam Clarke on 2 Samuel 3:1

John Gill on 2 Samuel 3:5

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Keil & Delitzsch on 2 Samuel 3:2-5

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Samuel 3:3

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