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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

撒母耳记下 16:4

王對洗巴說:“看哪!凡屬米非波設所有的,都歸給你了。”洗巴說:“我叩拜我主我王,願我在你眼前蒙恩!”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ark;   Confiscation;   King;   Mephibosheth;   Rashness;   Servant;   Ziba;   Thompson Chain Reference - Confiscation;   Mephibosheth;   Nation, the;   Punishments;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Servants;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hadadezer or Hadarezer;   Mephibosheth;   Ziba;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Mephibosheth;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ziba;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Samuel, Books of;   Ziba;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Mephibosheth;   Samuel, Books of;   Ziba;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Mephibosheth ;   Ziba ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Absalom;   Jerusalem;   Mephibosheth;   Olives;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mephib'osheth;   Zi'ba;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Mephibosheth;   Samuel, Books of;   Ziba;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Calumny;   Esther, Apocryphal Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
王 对 洗 巴 说 : 凡 属 米 非 波 设 的 都 归 你 了 。 洗 巴 说 : 我 叩 拜 我 主 我 王 , 愿 我 在 你 眼 前 蒙 恩 。

Contextual Overview

1 When David had passed a short way over the top of the Mount of Olives, Ziba, Mephibosheth's servant, met him. Ziba had a row of donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, one hundred cakes of raisins, one hundred cakes of figs, and leather bags full of wine. 2 The king asked Ziba, "What are these things for?" Ziba answered, "The donkeys are for your family to ride. The bread and cakes of figs are for the servants to eat. And the wine is for anyone to drink who might become weak in the desert." 3 The king asked, "Where is Mephibosheth?" Ziba answered him, "Mephibosheth is staying in Jerusalem because he thinks, ‘Today the Israelites will give my father's kingdom back to me!'" 4 Then the king said to Ziba, "All right. Everything that belonged to Mephibosheth, I now give to you!" Ziba said, "I bow to you. I hope I will always be able to please you."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Behold: 2 Samuel 14:10, 2 Samuel 14:11, Exodus 23:8, Deuteronomy 19:15, Proverbs 18:13, Proverbs 18:17, Proverbs 19:2

I humbly beseech thee: Heb. I do obeisance, 2 Samuel 14:4, 2 Samuel 14:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 32:5 - may find Genesis 33:15 - find grace Ruth 2:13 - Let me find 2 Samuel 9:9 - I have given 2 Samuel 14:8 - I will give 2 Samuel 21:7 - Mephibosheth

Cross-References

Genesis 16:4
Abram had sexual relations with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When Hagar learned she was pregnant, she began to treat her mistress Sarai badly.
Genesis 16:5
Then Sarai said to Abram, "This is your fault. I gave my slave girl to you, and when she became pregnant, she began to treat me badly. Let the Lord decide who is right—you or me."
Genesis 16:6
But Abram said to Sarai, "You are Hagar's mistress. Do anything you want to her." Then Sarai was hard on Hagar, and Hagar ran away.
Genesis 16:8
The angel said, "Hagar, Sarai's slave girl, where have you come from? Where are you going?" Hagar answered, "I am running away from my mistress Sarai."
2 Samuel 6:16
As the Ark of the Lord came into the city, Saul's daughter Michal looked out the window. When she saw David jumping and dancing in the presence of the Lord , she hated him.
Proverbs 30:23
a hated woman who gets married, and a maid who replaces her mistress.
1 Corinthians 4:6
Brothers and sisters, I have used Apollos and myself as examples so you could learn through us the meaning of the saying, "Follow only what is written in the Scriptures." Then you will not be more proud of one person than another.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said the king to Ziba, behold, thine [are] all that [pertaineth] to Mephibosheth,.... Being forfeited to the king by an overt act of treason as they had been before by the rebellion of Ishbosheth, but had been graciously restored to Mephibosheth; and had it been true what Ziba suggested, it would have been a righteous thing to have taken them from him; though it seems to be too hasty a step in David to take and give them away without further inquiry:

and Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee [that] I may find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king; he had found favour already, but seems not to be sufficiently thankful for it, and satisfied with it, but craved more and other favours, when opportunity should serve.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 16:4. Thine are all — This conduct of David was very rash; he spoiled an honourable man to reward a villain, not giving himself time to look into the circumstances of the case. But David was in heavy afflictions, and these sometimes make even a wise man mad. Nothing should be done rashly; he who is in the habit of obeying the first impulse of his passions or feelings, will seldom do a right action, and never keep a clear conscience.


 
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