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Meetings of David with Ziba and Shimei. Absalom's entry into Jerusalem. Ahithophel's advice.
2 Samuel 16:1. When David had come down a little from the top of the mountain, behold, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, met him with a pair of loaded donkeys, and on them were two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred bunches of figs, and a bottle of wine.
"Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth". See (2 Samuel 9:6–11).
2 Samuel 16:2. And the king said to Ziba: Why do you have this? And Ziba answered: Donkeys are for the king’s house to ride, and bread and fruits are for food for the youths, and wine is for drinking for those who are weak in the wilderness.
"Donkeys for the King's House" by David; “bread and fruits for food for the youths” who remained faithful to the exile; “and the wine” is for those around the king who are weak from moving in the desert.
2 Samuel 16:3. And the king said, Where is your master's son? And Ziba answered the king: Behold, he remained in Jerusalem and said: Now the house of Israel will restore to me the kingdom of my father.
2 Samuel 16:4. And the king said to Ziba, Here is for you all that Mephibosheth has. And Ziba answered, bowing: May I find mercy in the eyes of my lord the king!
2 Samuel 16:5. When King David reached Bahurim, behold, a man from the family of the house of Saul came out from there, named Shimei, the son of Gera; he walked and cursed
"Bahurim" - on the way from Jerusalem to the Jordan.
2 Samuel 16:10. And the king said, “What do you and me, sons of Zeruiah?” [leave him,] let him curse, for the Lord commanded him to curse David. Who can say: why are you doing this?
“The Lord commanded,” that is, he allowed him to slander David.
2 Samuel 16:11. And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, Behold, if my son, which came out of my bowels, seeks my life, how much more is the son of Benjamite; leave him alone, let him curse, for the Lord has commanded him;
“How much more the son of Benjamite” - from the tribe of the former king Saul.
2 Samuel 16:16. When Hushai the Archite, a friend of David, came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom: Long live the king, long live the king!
"Hushi the Archite". See (2 Samuel 15:32–37).
2 Samuel 16:21. And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father’s concubines, whom he has left to guard his house; and all the Israelites will hear that you have become hated by your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.
“This was supposed to be, on the one hand, an expressive symbol of the actual accession to the rights of the deposed king, on the other, a means of making reconciliation with his father impossible, so that Absalom himself could not return back, and all those who took his side could no longer hesitate between him and David” (Ya. Bogorodsky, “Jewish Kings”, p. 224).
2 Samuel 16:22. And they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
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