2 Samuele 23:7

7 chi le tocca s’arma d’un ferro o d’un’asta di lancia e si bruciano interamente là dove sono".

2 Samuele 23:7 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 23:7

But the man [that] shall touch them must be fenced with iron
and the staff of a spear
To remove these thorns, or sons of Belial, out of the way, or to defend himself against them; or weapons of war must be made use of to conquer and destroy them, according to the sense of Ben Gersom, and which De Dieu follows; a man that meddles with them must expect to be as much hurt and wounded by them, all over the body, as if not only the point or iron head of a spear, but the wood or handle of the spear, were thrust up in him; but the former sense seems best:

and they shall be utterly burnt with fire in the [same] place:
where the thorns grew, or whither they are removed, or are sitting; where persons are sitting to warm themselves by them: and this may be understood of the destruction of wicked rulers, when their kingdom is taken from them, and they are consumed root and branch; and was true not only of Saul, and his posterity, as some apply it, and of Jeroboam, and those like to him, as the above Jewish writer; but of the wicked Jews, and their rulers, those sons of Belial, who rejected the yoke of Christ, and would not have him to rule over them; to whom the Lord sent the Roman armies fenced with swords and spears, and burnt their city, and destroyed them in the same place; and may take in antichrist, and antichristian states, those sons of Belial, of the wicked (anomov) , and lawless one, the son of perdition, whose city, Rome, shall be burnt with fire; and even all wicked men, at the great day of judgment, to which the Targum refers these words; when they, whose end, like thorns, is to be burnt, will be cast into the lake which burns with fire and brimstone.

2 Samuele 23:7 In-Context

5 Non è egli così della mia casa dinanzi a Dio? Poich’egli ha fermato con me un patto eterno, in ogni punto ben regolato e sicuro appieno. Non farà egli germogliare la mia completa salvezza e tutto ciò ch’io bramo?

6 Ma gli scellerati tutti quanti son come spine che si buttan via e non si piglian con la mano;

7 chi le tocca s’arma d’un ferro o d’un’asta di lancia e si bruciano interamente là dove sono".

8 Questi sono i nomi dei valorosi guerrieri che furono al servizio di Davide: Josheb-Basshebeth, il Tahkemonita, capo dei principali ufficiali. Egli impugnò la lancia contro ottocento uomini, che uccise in un solo scontro.

9 Dopo di lui veniva Eleazar, figliuolo di Dodo, figliuolo di Akoi, uno dei tre valorosi guerrieri che erano con Davide, quando sfidarono i Filistei raunati per combattere, mentre gli Israeliti si ritiravano sulle alture.