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撒母耳记下 16:8

你流了掃羅全家的血,接替掃羅作王,耶和華已經把這罪報應在你身上;耶和華已經把這國交在你兒子押沙龍的手裡。看哪!你現在自取其禍了,因為你是個流人血的人。”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Clemency;   Cursing;   Malice;   Shimei;   Tob;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Reviling and Reproaching;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hadadezer or Hadarezer;   Shimel;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Benjamin;   Solomon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Shimei;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bird;   Shimei;   Swallow;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Samuel, Books of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Shimei ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Absalom;   Jerusalem;   Shimei;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Shim'ei;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abishai;   Bloody;   Mischief;   Samuel, Books of;   Shimei;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Alexandri;   Judge;   Shimei;   Treason;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 流 扫 罗 全 家 的 血 , 接 续 他 作 王 ; 耶 和 华 把 这 罪 归 在 你 身 上 , 将 这 国 交 给 你 儿 子 押 沙 龙 。 现 在 你 自 取 其 祸 , 因 为 你 是 流 人 血 的 人 。

Contextual Overview

5 As King David came to Bahurim, a man came out and cursed him. He was from Saul's family group, and his name was Shimei son of Gera. 6 He threw stones at David and his officers, but the people and soldiers gathered all around David. 7 Shimei cursed David, saying, "Get out, get out, you murderer, you troublemaker. 8 The Lord is punishing you for the people in Saul's family you killed! You took Saul's place as king, but now the Lord has given the kingdom to your son Absalom! Now you are ruined because you are a murderer!" 9 Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse you, the king? Let me go over and cut off his head!" 10 But the king answered, "This does not concern you, sons of Zeruiah! If he is cursing me because the Lord told him to, who can question him?" 11 David also said to Abishai and all his officers, "My own son is trying to kill me! This man is a Benjaminite and has more right to kill me! Leave him alone, and let him curse me because the Lord told him to do this. 12 Maybe the Lord will see my misery and repay me with something good for Shimei's curses today!" 13 So David and his men went on down the road, but Shimei followed on the nearby hillside. He kept cursing David and throwing stones and dirt at him. 14 When the king and all his people arrived at the Jordan, they were very tired, so they rested there.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

returned: Judges 9:24, Judges 9:56, Judges 9:57, 1 Kings 2:32, 1 Kings 2:33, Acts 28:4, Acts 28:5, Revelation 16:6

the blood: 2 Samuel 1:16, 2 Samuel 3:28, 2 Samuel 3:29, 2 Samuel 4:8-12, Psalms 3:2, Psalms 4:2

thou: etc. or, thee in thy evil

Reciprocal: Numbers 16:41 - Ye have Deuteronomy 21:7 - General Psalms 5:6 - the bloody Psalms 7:3 - if I Psalms 27:12 - false Psalms 38:12 - speak Psalms 39:8 - make Psalms 55:3 - for they Psalms 89:51 - footsteps Psalms 109:3 - compassed Psalms 119:22 - Remove Psalms 119:42 - have wherewith Proverbs 17:26 - to strike

Cross-References

Genesis 3:9
But the Lord God called to the man and said, "Where are you?"
Genesis 4:10
Then the Lord said, "What have you done? Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground.
Genesis 16:1
Sarai, Abram's wife, had no children, but she had a slave girl from Egypt named Hagar.
Genesis 16:2
Sarai said to Abram, "Look, the Lord has not allowed me to have children, so have sexual relations with my slave girl. If she has a child, maybe I can have my own family through her." Abram did what Sarai said.
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 16:8
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."
1 Samuel 26:19
My master and king, listen to me. If the Lord made you angry with me, let him accept an offering. But if people did it, may the Lord curse them! They have made me leave the land the Lord gave me. They have told me, ‘Go and serve other gods.'
Ecclesiastes 10:4
Don't leave your job just because your boss is angry with you. Remaining calm solves great problems.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul,.... Which he would suggest was shed by David, or, however, that he was the cause of its being shed; as if he had stirred up the Philistines to that battle in which Saul and his sons were slain, and had an hand secretly in the deaths of Ishbosheth and Abner, all which were false insinuations; and it may be the seven sons of Saul before this time, though after related, were delivered into the hands of the Gibeonites to be hanged, to which respect may be had:

in whose stead thou hast reigned; not by right, but by usurpation he suggests:

and the Lord hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son; in this he seems to contradict himself; for if David had got the kingdom by usurpation, it would rather have, been delivered by the Lord into the hand of one of Saul's family, and not of David's:

and behold, thou [art taken] in thy mischief; punished for his sins; the mischief he had brought on others was retaliated to him:

because thou [art] a bloody man; guilty of slaying, as the Targum of shedding innocent blood, and so worthy of death.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

All the blood of the house of Saul - Shimei probably put to David’s account the death of Saul, and Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchishua, slain in battle by the Philistines with whom David was in league; of Ish-bosheth, slain in consequence of David’s league with Abner; that of Abner himself, which he attributed to David’s secret orders; and all the 360 slain in the battle between Joab and Abner 2 Samuel 2:31. Some, too, think that the death of seven men of Saul’s immediate family 2 Samuel 21:8 had occurred before David’s flight, and was referred to by Shimei. Shimei’s hatred and virulence is an indication that the Benjamites resented the loss of royalty in their tribe, even in the palmiest days of David’s monarchy.


 
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