2 Samuel 18:21

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Lalu berkatalah Yoab kepada seorang Etiopia: "Pergilah, beritahukanlah kepada raja apa yang kaulihat." Orang Etiopia itu sujud menyembah kepada Yoab, lalu berlari pergi.

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Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Lalu berkatalah Yoab kepada seorang Etiopia: "Pergilah, beritahukanlah kepada raja apa yang kaulihat." Orang Etiopia itu sujud menyembah kepada Yoab, lalu berlari pergi.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Lalu kata Yoab kepada Kusyi: Pergilah engkau, persembahkanlah kepada baginda barang yang telah kaulihat itu. Maka menyembahlah Kusyi kepada Yoab lalu pergi.

Bible Verse Review
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Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said Joab to Cushi,.... The Ethiopian, or blackamoor; who either was an Ethiopian by birth and proselyted, or he was an Israelite of a black complexion, and therefore so called; and was judged a proper person by the general to carry such dismal news to the king, as he knew it would be. Some Jewish writers a take him to be the same with Cush the Benjaminite, in the title of the seventh psalm, Psalms 7:1; and that he is the same that told Joab he saw Absalom hanging in an oak, and declared that, if a thousand shekels of silver were offered him, he would not have put forth his hand against him, 2 Samuel 18:10; though some think this was one of the ten young men that waited on Joab, and by his orders slew Absalom; but it would have been dangerous for one of these to have carried the tidings, had he been known by David to have done it:

go tell the king what thou hast seen: by which it should seem that he was present when Absalom was killed:

and Cushi bowed himself unto Joab; in reverence to him as his general, and in thankfulness for sending him on this errand:

and ran; as fast as he could.

a Pirke Eliezer, c. 53.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Cushi - “The Cushite,” a foreign slave, perhaps of Joab’s, whom he did not scruple to expose to David’s anger. If, however, it is a name, it must be rendered “Haccushi.” In the title to Psalms 7:0, “Cush, the Benjamite,” cannot mean this Cushi, since the contents of the Psalm are not suitable to this occasion.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 18:21. Tell the king what thou hast seen — At this time the death of Absalom was not publicly known; but Joab had given Cushi private information of it. This Ahimaaz had not, for he could not tell the king whether Absalom were dead. To this Joab seems to refer, 2 Samuel 18:22: "Thou hast no tidings ready."