Sāmǔĕrjìxià 4:6

6 Tāmen jìn le fángzi , jiǎ zuò yào qǔ maìzi , jiù cī tòu yī shī bō shè de dù fù , taópǎo le .

Sāmǔĕrjìxià 4:6 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 4:6

And they came thither into the midst of the house
They not only came unto it, but entered into it, and went into the inmost part of it; the guards being asleep also perhaps, or not on duty, so that there were none to obstruct them; or if there were, they deceived them, since they went in

[as though] they would have fetched wheat;
out of the king's granaries, for the payment and support of the soldiers under them, who in those days were paid in corn, as were the Roman soldiers ^F25 in later times; and these granaries might not only be in the king's house, but near his bedchamber; for in those ancient ages of simplicity there was not such grandeur in the courts of princes as now; the Targum is,

``as sellers of wheat,''

in the guise and habit of such persons, pretending they came to sell wheat to the king's purveyors, who were at the granaries; or, as others interpret it, they went in along with the wheat merchants as if they belonged to them, and so found their way to the king's bedchamber:

and smote him under the fifth [rib]; (See Gill on 2 Samuel 2:23);

and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped;
they got out of the palace after they had committed the murder undiscovered and unsuspected.

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 Vid. Valtrinum de re militar. Roman. l. 3. c. 15. p. 236.

Sāmǔĕrjìxià 4:6 In-Context

4 Sǎoluó de érzi Yuēnádān yǒu yī gè érzi míng jiào mǐ fēi bō shè , shì quètuǐ de . Sǎoluó hé Yuēnádān sǐwáng de xiāoxi cóng yé sī liè chuán dào de shíhou , tā cái wǔ suì . tā rǔmǔ bào zhe tā taópǎo . yīnwei paó dé taì jí , háizi diào zaì dì shàng , tuǐ jiù què le .

5 Yī rì , Bǐlù rén lín mén de liǎng gè érzi Lìjiǎ hé Bāná chū qù , yuē zaì wǔ rè de shíhou dào le yī shī bō shè de jiā . yī shī bō shè zhēng shuì wǔ jué .

6 Tāmen jìn le fángzi , jiǎ zuò yào qǔ maìzi , jiù cī tòu yī shī bō shè de dù fù , taópǎo le .

7 Tāmen jìn fángzi de shíhou , yī shī bō shè zhèngzaì wòfáng lǐ tǎng zaì chuáng shàng , tāmen jiāng tā shā sǐ , gē le tāde shǒu jí , ná zhe shǒu jí zaì yà là bā zǒu le yī yè ,

8 Jiāng yī shī bō shè de shǒu jí ná dào Xībǎilún jiàn Dàwèi wáng , shuō , wáng de chóudí Sǎoluó céng xún suǒ wáng de xìngméng . kàn nǎ , zhè shì tā érzi yī shī bō shè de shǒu jí . Yēhéhuá jīnrì wèi wǒ zhǔ wǒ wáng zaì Sǎoluó hé tā hòuyì de shēnshang bào le chóu .