2 Samuël 3:5

5 En de zesde, Jithream, van Egla, Davids huisvrouw. Dezen zijn David geboren te Hebron.

2 Samuël 3:5 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 3:5

And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife
Who also is not spoken of in any other place; only, in a like chronological account as the former, it is remarked that the mother of this only is called David's wife; the reason of which is supposed to be, either because she was a person of no note, and had nothing else to distinguish her; but the same may be said of the two foregoing; or because she was his beloved wife, his heifer, as her name signifies; hence the Jews ^F25 take her to be Michal his first wife, whom he greatly loved, and who, though she had no children after her contempt of David for playing before the ark, unto the day of her death, yet might have before: but it should be observed, that as yet she was not returned to David in Hebron; and when she was returned, did not seem to continue there long enough to have a son there; and besides, being his first wife, would not be reckoned last; but still more foreign is another notion of the Jews ^F26, that she was Saul's widow, who though she might not be married to another might be married to a king, as David was; and this they suppose receives some confirmation from ( 2 Samuel 12:8 ) ; but after all it may be this phrase "David's wife", as some have observed, by a figure the rhetoricians call "zeugma", or "hypozeugma", is to be joined to everyone of the women before mentioned, ( 2 Samuel 3:2-5 ) , who were his wives, and so called to distinguish them from his concubines, by whom he had sons also. Polygamy, or plurality of wives, which David gave into, is no favourable part of his character.

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 21. 1. Hieron. Trad. Heb. in 2 Reg. fol. 77. F.
F26 In Kimchi & Ben Gersom in loc.

2 Samuël 3:5 In-Context

3 En zijn tweede was Chileab, van Abigail, de huisvrouw van Nabal, den Karmeliet; en de derde, Absalom, de zoon van Maacha, de dochter van Thalmai, koning van Gesur;

4 En de vierde, Adonia, de zoon van Haggith; en de vijfde Sefatja, de zoon van Abital;

5 En de zesde, Jithream, van Egla, Davids huisvrouw. Dezen zijn David geboren te Hebron.

6 Terwijl die krijg was tussen het huis van Saul, en tussen het huis van David, zo geschiedde het, dat Abner zich sterkte in het huis van Saul.

7 Saul nu had een bijwijf gehad, welker naam was Rizpa, dochter van Aja; en Isboseth zeide tot Abner: Waarom zijt gij ingegaan tot mijns vaders bijwijf?