Sāmǔĕrjìxià 3:14

14 Dàwèi jiù dǎfa rén qù jiàn Sǎoluó de érzi yī shī bō shè , shuō , nǐ yào jiāng wǒde qī mǐ jiǎ guī huán wǒ . tā shì wǒ cóng qián yòng yī bǎi Fēilìshì rén de yáng pí suǒ pìn déng de .

Sāmǔĕrjìxià 3:14 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 3:14

And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son
When Abner's messengers returned to him, and acquainted him with the condition of David's entering into a league with him, it is highly probable that Abner sent them or others to David, to let him know that he could not do this of himself; that it was advisable for him to write to Ishbosheth, whose sister she was, and demand her of him; and that then he would use his interest with Ishbosheth to grant it, and this method David took:

saying, deliver [me] my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an
hundred foreskins of the Philistines;
two arguments he made use of to enforce his demand; one is, that it was his wife he required, to whom he had a right, and no other man; and the other is, that he had purchased her at a great expense, at the risk of his life, in slaying an hundred Philistines, whose foreskins he paid in for her at the instance of Saul; he mentions but one hundred, though he gave two hundred as her dowry, no more being required than one hundred; see ( 1 Samuel 18:25 1 Samuel 18:27 ) . Josephus very wrongly says six hundred ^F2; the Syriac and Arabic have here two hundred.

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 Antiqu. l 7. c. 1. sect. 4.

Sāmǔĕrjìxià 3:14 In-Context

12 Níér dǎfa rén qù jiàn Dàwèi , tì tā shuō , zhè guó guī shuí ne . yòu shuō , nǐ yǔ wǒ lì yuē , wǒ bì bāngzhu nǐ , shǐ Yǐsèliè rén dōu guī fú nǐ .

13 Dàwèi shuō , hǎo . wǒ yǔ nǐ lì yuē . dàn yǒu yī jiàn , nǐ lái jiàn wǒ miàn de shíhou , ruò bù jiāng Sǎoluó de nǚér mǐ jiǎ daì lái , bì bùdé jiàn wǒde miàn .

14 Dàwèi jiù dǎfa rén qù jiàn Sǎoluó de érzi yī shī bō shè , shuō , nǐ yào jiāng wǒde qī mǐ jiǎ guī huán wǒ . tā shì wǒ cóng qián yòng yī bǎi Fēilìshì rén de yáng pí suǒ pìn déng de .

15 Yī shī bō shè jiù dǎfa rén qù , jiāng mǐ jiǎ cóng là yì de érzi , tā zhàngfu pà tiĕ nàli jiē huí lái .

16 Mǐ jiǎ de zhàngfu gēn zhe tā , yī miàn zǒu yī miàn kū , zhí gēn dào bā hù lín . Níér shuō , nǐ huí qù ba . pà tiĕ jiù huí qù le .