Sāmǔĕrjìxià 18:6

6 Bīng jiù chū dào tiānyĕ yíng zhe Yǐsèliè rén , zaì Yǐfǎlián shùlín lǐ jiāo zhàn .

Sāmǔĕrjìxià 18:6 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 18:6

So the people went out into the field against Israel
Josephus ^F5 calls it a great field, with a wood behind it:

and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
or near it ^F6 rather; not in a wood in the tribe of Ephraim, which lay on this side Jordan; whereas this battle was fought on the other side Jordan, in the land of Gilead, not far from Mahanaim, where was this wood; and which was so called, either from the slaughter of the Ephraimites here in the times of Jephthah, ( Judges 12:4-6 ) ; or from the Ephraimites feeding their cattle here and near it; for the Jews say ^F7, that Joshua gave them a grant to feed their cattle in any wood in any of the tribes of Israel; and lying near Jordan, they used to drive their cattle over to this place, from whence it had its name.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 Ut supra, (Antiqu. l. 7. c. 10.) sect. 2.
F6 (reyb) "ad sylvam", Junius & Tremellius; "prope sylvam", Piscator.
F7 In Jarchi, Kimchi, & Abarbinel, in loc.

Sāmǔĕrjìxià 18:6 In-Context

4 Wáng xiàng tāmen shuō , nǐmen yǐwéi zĕnyàng hǎo , wǒ jiù zĕnyàng xíng . yúshì wáng zhàn zaì chéng mén páng , jūn bīng huò bǎi huò qiā dì ái cì chū qù le .

5 Wáng zhǔfu Yuēyē , yà bǐ shāi , yǐ taì shuō , nǐmen yào wèi wǒde yuángù kuān dāi nà shàonián rén Yēshālóng . wáng wèi Yēshālóng zhǔfu zhòng jiāng de huà , bīng dōu tīngjian le .

6 Bīng jiù chū dào tiānyĕ yíng zhe Yǐsèliè rén , zaì Yǐfǎlián shùlín lǐ jiāo zhàn .

7 Yǐsèliè rén baì zaì Dàwèi de púrén miànqián . nà rì zhèn wáng de shén duō , gòng yǒu èr wàn rén .

8 Yīnwei zaì nàli sìmiàn dǎzhàng , sǐ yú shùlín de bǐ sǐ yú dāo jiàn de gèng duō .