2 Samuele 18:27

27 La sentinella disse: "Il modo di correre del primo mi par quello di Ahimaats, figliuolo di Tsadok". E il re disse: "E’ un uomo dabbene, e viene a portare buone notizie".

2 Samuele 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.

2 Samuele 18:27 In-Context

25 La sentinella gridò e avvertì il re. Il re disse: "Se è solo, porta notizie". E quello s’andava avvicinando sempre più.

26 Poi la sentinella vide un altr’uomo che correva, e gridò al guardiano: "Ecco un altr’uomo che corre tutto solo!" E il re: "Anche questo porta notizie".

27 La sentinella disse: "Il modo di correre del primo mi par quello di Ahimaats, figliuolo di Tsadok". E il re disse: "E’ un uomo dabbene, e viene a portare buone notizie".

28 E Ahimaats gridò al re: "Pace!" E, prostratosi dinanzi al re con la faccia a terra, disse: "Benedetto sia l’Eterno, l’Iddio tuo, che ha dato in tuo potere gli uomini che aveano alzate le mani contro il re, mio signore!"

29 Il re disse: "Il giovine Absalom sta egli bene?" Ahimaats rispose: "Quando Joab mandava il servo del re e me tuo servo io vidi un gran tumulto, ma non so di che si trattasse".