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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

撒母耳记下 3:16

米甲的丈夫與她一起去,跟在她後面,一邊走、一邊哭,一直跟到巴戶琳。押尼珥對他說:“你去吧!回去吧!”他只好回去了。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abner;   Bahurim;   Conspiracy;   David;   Ish-Bosheth;   Michal;   Phalti;   Treason;   Thompson Chain Reference - Weeping;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bahurim;   Michal;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bahurim;   Michal;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Adriel;   Bahurim;   Benjamin;   Dance;   David;   Ishbosheth;   Phalti;   Shimei;   Sirah, the Well of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bahurim;   Michal;   Palti;   Paltiel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Abner;   Bahurim;   Phaltiel;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bahurim ;   Ishbosheth ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Bahurim;   David;   Dwelling;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mi'chal;   Phal'ti;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bahurim;   Joab;   Michal;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Abner;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bahurim;   Covenant;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
米 甲 的 丈 夫 跟 着 他 , 一 面 走 一 面 哭 , 直 跟 到 巴 户 琳 。 押 尼 珥 说 : 你 回 去 罢 ! 帕 铁 就 回 去 了 。

Contextual Overview

7 Saul once had a slave woman named Rizpah, who was the daughter of Aiah. Ish-Bosheth said to Abner, "Why did you have sexual relations with my father's slave woman?" 8 Abner was very angry because of what Ish-Bosheth said, and he replied, "I have been loyal to Saul and his family and friends! I didn't hand you over to David. I am not a traitor working for Judah! But now you are saying I did something wrong with this woman! 9 May God help me if I don't join David! I will make sure that what the Lord promised does happen! 10 I will take the kingdom from the family of Saul and make David king of Israel and Judah, from Dan to Beersheba!" 11 Ish-Bosheth couldn't say anything to Abner, because he was afraid of him. 12 Then Abner sent messengers to ask David, "Who is going to rule the land? Make an agreement with me, and I will help you unite all Israel." 13 David answered, "Good! I will make an agreement with you, but I ask you one thing. I will not meet with you unless you bring Saul's daughter Michal to me." 14 Then David sent messengers to Saul's son Ish-Bosheth, saying, "Give me my wife Michal. She was promised to me, and I killed a hundred Philistines to get her." 15 So Ish-Bosheth sent men to take Michal from her husband Paltiel son of Laish. 16 Michal's husband went with her, crying as he followed her to Bahurim. But Abner said to Paltiel, "Go back home." So he went home.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

along weeping: Heb. going and weeping, Proverbs 9:17, Proverbs 9:18

Bahurim: 2 Samuel 16:5, 2 Samuel 17:18, 2 Samuel 19:16, 1 Kings 2:8

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 41:6 - weeping

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the snake was the most clever of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day the snake said to the woman, "Did God really say that you must not eat fruit from any tree in the garden?"
Genesis 3:6
The woman saw that the tree was beautiful, that its fruit was good to eat, and that it would make her wise. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of the fruit to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
Genesis 3:7
Then, it was as if their eyes were opened. They realized they were naked, so they sewed fig leaves together and made something to cover themselves.
Genesis 3:8
Then they heard the Lord God walking in the garden during the cool part of the day, and the man and his wife hid from the Lord God among the trees in the garden.
Genesis 3:9
But the Lord God called to the man and said, "Where are you?"
Genesis 3:10
The man answered, "I heard you walking in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid."
Genesis 3:11
God asked, "Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat fruit from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat?"
Genesis 3:12
The man said, "You gave this woman to me and she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it."
Genesis 3:16
Then God said to the woman, "I will cause you to have much trouble when you are pregnant, and when you give birth to children, you will have great pain. You will greatly desire your husband, but he will rule over you."
Genesis 3:17
Then God said to the man, "You listened to what your wife said, and you ate fruit from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat. "So I will put a curse on the ground, and you will have to work very hard for your food. In pain you will eat its food all the days of your life.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And her husband went with her along weeping behind her,.... Because of his great affection to her, unwilling to part with her, but forced to it at the command of the king her brother:

to Bahurim; a city in the tribe of Benjamin, 2 Samuel 19:16; perhaps the same with Almon, Joshua 21:18; these two words being of the same signification; and the Targum has it hero Almuth; so Alemeth in 1 Chronicles 6:60. It seems to be the same Josephus c calls Bachures, and says it was not far from Jerusalem. Bunting d says it was something more than a mile towards the northeast, and at this time is a fair castle strongly fortified, standing in a high place, and in the valley near it, at the stone Bohan, Joshua 15:6; see 2 Samuel 17:18;

then said Abner to him, go, return, and he returned; by which it appears that Abner came with her to introduce her to David, without whom he was not to see his face; and he did not choose her husband should go with her any further, and was at his orders obliged to go back, who otherwise would have gladly accompanied her further still, through his great affection for her.

c Antiqu. l. 7. c. 9. sect. 7. d Travels, p. 144.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bahurim - Best known as the residence of Shimei, and as the place where Jonathan and Ahimaaz were concealed in a well on the occasion of David’s flight from Absalom 2 Samuel 16:5; 2 Samuel 17:18. It seems to have been situated in the southern border of the tribe of Benjamin, and on the route from Jerusalem to the Jordan fords, since Phaltiel came from Mahanaim 2 Samuel 2:8.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 3:16. Weeping behind her — If genuine affection did not still subsist between David and Michal, it was a pity to have taken her from Phaltiel, who had her to wife from the conjoint authority of her father and her king.

Nevertheless David had a legal right to her, as she had never been divorced, for she was taken from him by the hand of violence.


 
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