OLD TESTAMENT

2 Samuel 17:3

The Holy Bible · English
All chapters

Read all chapter notes ↗

Bilingual reading
Text

Open an explanation beneath verses with notes. Your notes and highlights stay on this device.

3

and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace.”

ExplanationCommentary
EXPLANATION

Verse 3. One man. They will return with such unanimity, when their leader is cut off. Menochius.—David was the one man whom his son desired to kill, as the latter was the only one whom David ordered to be spared. Calmet. 18:5. Bible.—Hebrew seems rather transposed: “I will bring back all the people to thee, as all the people, whom thou seekest, are returned; and all the people shall be in peace:” or, … “when all those, whom thou desirest, shall be returned, and so forth Calmet.—Septuagint “as a bride returns to her husband; only the soul of one thou seekest, and peace shall be to all the people.” Bible.

Read all chapter notes
Read the whole chapter