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2 Samuele 16:9

Allora Abishai, figlio di Tseruiah, disse al re: "Perch questo cane morto deve maledire il re, mio signore? Ti prego, lascia che io vada a troncargli la testa!".

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abishai;   Clemency;   Dog (Sodomite?);   Forgiveness;   Meekness;   Shimei;   Zeruiah;   Thompson Chain Reference - Abishai;   Zeruiah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Meekness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Abishai;   Hadadezer or Hadarezer;   Shimel;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Abishai;   Animals;   Solomon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Dog;   Shimei;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abishai;   Bird;   Dog;   Shimei;   Swallow;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Capital Punishment;   Crimes and Punishments;   Samuel, Books of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Abishai ;   Shimei ;   Zeruiah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Abishai;   Absalom;   Jerusalem;   Shimei;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Dog,;   Shim'ei;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abishai;   Dead;   Samuel, Books of;   Shimei;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Alexandri;   Beheading;   Dog;   Judge;   Shimei;  

Parallel Translations

Riveduta Bibbia
Allora Abishai, figliuolo di Tseruia, disse al re: "Perché questo can morto osa egli maledire il re, mio signore? Ti prego, lasciami andare a troncargli la testa!"
Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
E Abisai, figliuolo di Seruia, disse al re: Perchè maledice questo can morto il re, mio signore? deh! lascia che io vada, e gli tolga il capo.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Abishai: 2 Samuel 3:30, 1 Samuel 26:6-8

dead dog: 2 Samuel 3:8, 2 Samuel 9:8, 1 Samuel 24:14

curse: Exodus 22:28, Acts 23:5, 1 Peter 2:17

let me go: 1 Samuel 26:6-11, Job 31:30, Job 31:31, Jeremiah 40:13-16

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 17:43 - Am 1 Chronicles 2:16 - the sons of 1 Chronicles 18:12 - Moreover

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king,.... A sister's son of his, and a general in the army, who could not bear to hear the king abused in this manner:

why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? be suffered to do it with impunity; a "dog" he calls him, because of his vileness and baseness, and because of his impudence, and on account of his reproachful and abusive language, aptly signified by the snarling and barking of a dog; and a "dead" dog, as being useless, detestable, and abominable:

let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head; go over the plain where David and his men were, to the hill on which Shimei was, and strike off his head with his sword; which he could easily do, and soon put an end to his cursing.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This dead dog - See the marginal reference and 2 Samuel 9:8 note.

Go over - The ravine, possibly with a stream of water 2 Samuel 17:20, which lay between them and Shimei.


 
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