4 Regum 20:19

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Nonne ego sum quæ respondeo veritatem in Israël, et tu quæris subvertere civitatem et evertere matrem in Israël? quare præcipitas hæreditatem Domini?

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
requiretur enim sessio tua usque perendie. Descendes ergo festinus, et venies in locum ubi celandus es in die qua operari licet, et sedebis juxta lapidem, cui nomen est Ezel.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Ego pacifica fidelium Israel, et tu quaeris subruere civitatem et evertere matrem in Israel. Quare praecipitas hereditatem Domini?".

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

peaceable: Genesis 18:23, Romans 13:3, Romans 13:4, 1 Timothy 2:2

a mother: Judges 5:7, Ezekiel 16:45-49

swallow: 2 Samuel 17:16, Numbers 16:32, Numbers 26:10, Psalms 124:3, Jeremiah 51:34, Jeremiah 51:44, Lamentations 2:2, Lamentations 2:5, Lamentations 2:16, 1 Corinthians 15:54, 2 Corinthians 5:4

the inheritance: 2 Samuel 21:3, Exodus 19:5, Exodus 19:6, Deuteronomy 32:9, 1 Samuel 26:19

Reciprocal: Psalms 35:25 - We have Psalms 120:7 - for peace Micah 2:8 - securely Romans 12:18 - General 2 Corinthians 2:7 - swallowed

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I [am one of them that are] peaceable [and] faithful in Israel,.... Her meaning is, that she was of a city which consisted of peaceable and faithful men, that were peaceable among themselves, and faithful to their king, who never were concerned in any insurrection or rebellion, not in the late one under Absalom:

thou seekest to destroy a city, and a mother in Israel; a metropolitan city, which had several towns and villages under its jurisdiction, which were as daughters to it. Some think she means herself, because very old, supposed c to be Serah, the daughter of Asher, a son of Jacob, which is improbable:

wilt why thou swallow up the inheritance of the Lord? a city which is a part of the land, that is the Lord's inheritance.

c Jarchi & Kimchi in loc. Hieron. Trad. Heb. in 2 Reg. fol. 79. L.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I am one ... - The woman speaks in the name of the whole city, which she means to say was peaceable and loyal.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 20:19. I - peaceable and faithful in Israel — I am for peace, not contention of any kind; I am faithful-I adhere to David, and neither seek nor shall sanction any rebellion or anarchy in the land. Why then dost thou proceed in such a violent manner? Perhaps the woman speaks here in the name and on behalf of the city: "I am a peaceable city, and am faithful to the king."

A mother in Israel — That is, a chief city of a district; for it is very likely that the woman speaks of the city, not of herself.