2 Samuel 18:21

21 Então Joabe ordenou a um etíope:^[a] “Vá dizer ao rei o que você viu”. O etíope inclinou-se diante de Joabe e saiu correndo para levar a notícia.

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 Então Aimaás, filho de Zadoque, disse: “Deixa-me correr e levar ao rei a notícia de que o SENHOR lhe fez justiça, livrando-o de seus inimigos”.

20 “Não é você quem deve levar a notícia hoje”, disse-lhe Joabe. “Deixe isso para outra ocasião. Hoje não, porque o filho do rei morreu”.

21 Então Joabe ordenou a um etíope: “Vá dizer ao rei o que você viu”. O etíope inclinou-se diante de Joabe e saiu correndo para levar a notícia.

22 Todavia Aimaás, filho de Zadoque, disse de novo a Joabe: “Não importa o que aconteça, deixa-me ir com o etíope”.Joabe, porém, respondeu: “Por que está querendo tanto ir, meu filho? Você não receberá nenhuma recompensa pela notícia”.

23 Mas ele insistiu: “Não importa o que aconteça, quero ir”.Disse então Joabe: “Pois vá!” E Aimaás correu pelo caminho da planície e passou à frente do etíope.

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebraico: "cuxita; " também em 18.21-23, 31 e 32.