2 Samuel 18:21

21 Aber zu Chusi sprach Joab: Gehe hin und sage dem König an, was du gesehen hast. Und Chusi neigte sich vor Joab und lief.

2 Samuel 18:21 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 18:21

Then said Joab to Cushi
The Ethiopian, or blackamoor; who either was an Ethiopian by birth and proselyted, or he was an Israelite of a black complexion, and therefore so called; and was judged a proper person by the general to carry such dismal news to the king, as he knew it would be. Some Jewish writers ^F1 take him to be the same with Cush the Benjaminite, in the title of the seventh psalm, ( Psalms 7:1 ) ; and that he is the same that told Joab he saw Absalom hanging in an oak, and declared that, if a thousand shekels of silver were offered him, he would not have put forth his hand against him, ( 2 Samuel 18:10-12 ) ; though some think this was one of the ten young men that waited on Joab, and by his orders slew Absalom; but it would have been dangerous for one of these to have carried the tidings, had he been known by David to have done it:

go tell the king what thou hast seen:
by which it should seem that he was present when Absalom was killed:

and Cushi bowed himself unto Joab;
in reverence to him as his general, and in thankfulness for sending him on this errand:

and ran;
as fast as he could.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 Pirke Eliezer, c. 53.

2 Samuel 18:21 In-Context

19 Ahimaaz, der Sohn Zadoks, sprach: Laß mich doch laufen und dem König verkündigen, daß der HERR ihm Recht verschafft hat von seiner Feinde Händen.

20 Joab aber sprach zu ihm: Du bringst heute keine gute Botschaft. Einen andern Tag sollst du Botschaft bringen, und heute nicht; denn des Königs Sohn ist tot.

21 Aber zu Chusi sprach Joab: Gehe hin und sage dem König an, was du gesehen hast. Und Chusi neigte sich vor Joab und lief.

22 Ahimaaz aber, der Sohn Zadoks, sprach abermals zu Joab: Wie, wenn ich auch liefe dem Chusi nach? Joab sprach: Was willst du laufen, Mein Sohn? Komm her, die Botschaft wird dir nichts einbringen.

23 Wie wenn ich liefe? Er sprach zu ihm: So laufe doch! Also lief Ahimaaz geradewegs und kam Chusi vor.