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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

撒母耳记下 19:28

因為我祖父全家的人,在我主我王面前都算不得甚麼,都不過是該死的人;你卻使僕人在你席上與你一同吃飯。我還有甚麼權利再向王哀求甚麼呢?”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - David;   Mephibosheth;   Rashness;   Slander;   Ziba;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ziba;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prophet;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Mephibosheth;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Manaen;   Samuel, Books of;   Ziba;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Samuel, Books of;   Ziba;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Joram;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Mephibosheth ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Mephibosheth;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Saul;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Mephibosheth;   Relationships, Family;   Right;   Samuel, Books of;   Ziba;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Angelology;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
因 为 我 祖 全 家 的 人 , 在 我 主 我 王 面 前 都 算 为 死 人 , 王 却 使 仆 人 在 王 的 席 上 同 人 吃 饭 , 我 现 在 向 王 还 能 辨 理 诉 冤 麽 ?

Contextual Overview

24 Mephibosheth, Saul's grandson, also went down to meet King David. Mephibosheth had not cared for his feet, cut his beard, or washed his clothes from the time the king had left Jerusalem until he returned safely. 25 When Mephibosheth came from Jerusalem to meet the king, the king asked him, "Mephibosheth, why didn't you go with me?" 26 He answered, "My master, my servant Ziba tricked me! I said to Ziba, ‘I am crippled, so saddle a donkey. Then I will ride it so I can go with the king.' 27 But he lied about me to you. You, my master and king, are like an angel from God. Do what you think is good. 28 You could have killed all my grandfather's family. Instead, you put me with those people who eat at your own table. So I don't have a right to ask anything more from the king!" 29 The king said to him, "Don't say anything more. I have decided that you and Ziba will divide the land." 30 Mephibosheth said to the king, "Let Ziba take all the land now that my master the king has arrived safely home."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

were: Genesis 32:10

dead men: Heb. men of death, 1 Samuel 26:16

didst thou: 2 Samuel 9:7, 2 Samuel 9:8, 2 Samuel 9:10, 2 Samuel 9:13

to cry: 2 Kings 8:3

Reciprocal: Ruth 2:10 - Why have 1 Samuel 20:31 - shall surely die 1 Kings 2:7 - eat Job 2:10 - shall we receive Proverbs 27:10 - own Luke 22:30 - eat

Cross-References

Genesis 19:10
But the two men staying with Lot opened the door, pulled him back inside the house, and then closed the door.
Genesis 19:11
They struck those outside the door with blindness, so the men, both young and old, could not find the door.
Psalms 107:34
He made fertile land salty, because the people there did evil.
2 Peter 2:7
But he saved Lot from those cities. Lot, a good man, was troubled because of the filthy lives of evil people.
Jude 1:7
Also remember the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and the other towns around them. In the same way they were full of sexual sin and people who desired sexual relations that God does not allow. They suffer the punishment of eternal fire, as an example for all to see.
Revelation 9:2
Then it opened up the hole that leads to the bottomless pit, and smoke came up from the hole like smoke from a big furnace. Then the sun and sky became dark because of the smoke from the hole.
Revelation 18:9
The kings of the earth who sinned sexually with her and shared her wealth will see the smoke from her burning. Then they will cry and be sad because of her death.
Revelation 18:18
As they saw the smoke from her burning, they cried out loudly, "There was never a city like this great city!"
Revelation 19:3
Again they said: "Hallelujah! She is burning, and her smoke will rise forever and ever."
Revelation 21:8
But cowards, those who refuse to believe, who do evil things, who kill, who sin sexually, who do evil magic, who worship idols, and who tell lies—all these will have a place in the lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For all [of] my, father's house were but dead men before my lord the king,.... Or "men of death" m; worthy of death, not on account of Saul's persecution, for which his family did not deserve to suffer; rather for the attempt of Ishbosheth to get the kingdom from him, which might be deemed treason, and so the family was tainted for it; though the sense may be only this, that their lives lay at his mercy, and that if he had dealt with rigour and severity towards them, as was usual for princes to do towards the family of their predecessors, who had any claim to the kingdom, put them to death, this would have been their case:

yet didst thou set thy servant among them that eat at thine own table; which was showing him great kindness, and doing him great honour:

what right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king? to ask any favour of him, or make any complaint to him.

m אנשי מות "viris mortis", Montanus.


 
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