1 Chronicles 11:8

Verse 8. Round. He made a complete inclosure or fortification, as Mello denotes perfection, or completion, ( Bible.) by building houses from the castle to the town beneath it. David begun at the very house (or citadel, 4 Kennicott. 12:20) from which the blind and the lame thought to have excluded him, and built all round, so as to make an entire communication. Ken.—Built. Prot. “repaired.” Hebrew yechaye, ( Bible.) “saved alive.” Syr. and so forth Poole’s Synop. But probably shear is now written instead of shor, and jeje ought to be jeje. The long and the short e are easily confounded, ( Bible.) and a is frequently thus inserted. Watson.—“He built … round to the beginning of that circuit. And Joab was made governor of the city.” Ken.—“And surrounding it with a wall, he appointed Joab superintendant of the walls.” Joseph. vii. 3.—The position of the vowel points in these words, might naturally cause this mistake, ( Bible.) as it seems to have done on other occasions. Thus shor, “an ox,” should be sar, “a prince.” Genesis 49:6 and Osee 12:11. Shevarim, “oxen,” has been read sarim, “princes,” by the Septuagint The former passage might admit of some corrections. “In their anger they slew the men, and in their fury (vabrothom; instead of vabrotsnom, which is always explained in a good sense) they destroyed the princes. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their fury, for it was inflexible.”