Sāmǔĕrjìxià 18:27

27 Shǒu wàng de rén shuō , wǒ kàn qiántou rén de paó fǎ , hǎoxiàng Sādū de érzi yà xī mǎ sī de paó fǎ yíyàng . wáng shuō , tā shì gè hǎo rén , bì shì bào hǎo xìnxī .

Sāmǔĕrjìxià 18:27 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 18:27

And the watchman said, me thinketh
Or, "I see" ^F2; I perceive, so it appears to me:

that the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son
of Zadok;
who it seems was well known, and famous for his manner of running and swiftness in it, having been employed in carrying expresses before from Jerusalem to David, and his army, wheresoever they were; and some of these persons thus employed were very swift; we read ^F3 of one that was a king's messenger, that went from Jerusalem to Tyre, on the first of Elul, or August, in a night and a day; which, according to Bunting ^F4 was an hundred miles: this watchman must be one of David's sentinels, who was well acquainted with the people about him:

and the king said, he [is] a good man, and cometh with good tidings;
he knew he was a man of courage, and therefore was not one that fled, but must be a messenger; and that he was well affected to him, and would never be the messenger of evil tidings to him.

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 (har yna) (egw orw) , Sept. "ego videns", Montanus; "video", Tigurine version.
F3 T. Hieros. Taanioth, fol. 68. 3.
F4 Travels, p. 200.

Sāmǔĕrjìxià 18:27 In-Context

25 Shǒu wàng de rén jiù dàshēng gàosu wáng . wáng shuō , tā ruò dúzì lái , bì shì bào kǒu xìn de . nà rén paó dé jiànjiàn jìn le .

26 Shǒu wàng de rén yòu jiàn yī rén paó lái , jiù duì shǒu chéng mén de rén shuō , yòu yǒu yī rén dúzì paó lái . wáng shuō , zhè yĕ bì shì bàoxìn de .

27 Shǒu wàng de rén shuō , wǒ kàn qiántou rén de paó fǎ , hǎoxiàng Sādū de érzi yà xī mǎ sī de paó fǎ yíyàng . wáng shuō , tā shì gè hǎo rén , bì shì bào hǎo xìnxī .

28 Yà xī mǎ sī xiàng wáng hūjiào shuō , píngān le . jiù zaì wáng miànqián liǎn fú yú dì kòu baì , shuō , Yēhéhuá nǐde shén shì yīngdāng chēngsòng de , yīn tā yǐ jiāng nà jǔ shǒu gōngjī wǒ zhǔ wǒ wáng de rén jiāo gĕi wáng le .

29 Wáng wèn shuō , shàonián rén Yēshālóng píngān bù píngān . yà xī mǎ sī huídá shuō , Yuēyē dǎfa wáng de púrén , nàshí púrén tīngjian zhòng mín dàshēng xuān huá , què bù zhīdào shì shénme shì .