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跟 从 示 每 的 有 一 千 便 雅 悯 人 , 还 有 扫 罗 家 的 仆 人 洗 巴 和 他 十 五 个 儿 子 , 二 十 个 仆 人 ; 他 们 都 ? 过 约 但 河 迎 接 王 。
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Ziba: 2 Samuel 19:26, 2 Samuel 19:27, 2 Samuel 9:2, 2 Samuel 9:10, 2 Samuel 16:1-4
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 9:11 - Ziba
Cross-References
Lot looked all around and saw the whole Jordan Valley and that there was much water there. It was like the Lord 's garden, like the land of Egypt in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
So the men turned and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood there before the Lord .
because we are about to destroy this city. The Lord has heard of all the evil that is here, so he has sent us to destroy it."
So Lot went out and said to his future sons-in-law who were pledged to marry his daughters, "Hurry and leave this city! The Lord is about to destroy it!" But they thought Lot was joking.
At dawn the next morning, the angels begged Lot to hurry. They said, "Go! Take your wife and your two daughters with you so you will not be destroyed when the city is punished."
But Lot delayed. So the two men took the hands of Lot, his wife, and his two daughters and led them safely out of the city. So the Lord was merciful to Lot and his family.
But Lot said to one of them, "Sir, please don't force me to go so far!
But run there fast, because I cannot destroy Sodom until you are safely in that town." (That town is named Zoar, because it is little.)
At that point Lot's wife looked back. When she did, she became a pillar of salt.
One day the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old. Everywhere on the earth women and men marry, but there are no men around here for us to marry.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him,.... Of which tribe he was, and these were either a band of soldiers, of which he was the chiliarch; or tenants of his, which showed him to be a great man; or his neighbours, and persons of some figure, whom he prevailed upon to come as intercessors for him:
and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul; who had imposed upon David, and got his master's inheritance from him, knowing that David would be undeceived by Mephibosheth his master, when he came to Jerusalem; and therefore that he might be more tenderly dealt with, and come off the better, he was thus forward to meet the king, and pay his respects to him:
and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him: which made a considerable appearance; see 2 Samuel 9:10;
and they went over Jordan before the king: to meet him on the other side, both Shimei and his a thousand men, and Ziba with his sons and servants.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Before the king - i. e., “to meet the king.” Compare 2 Samuel 20:8. The king was on the east bank, and they crossed over (by the ford) from the west bank to go to him.