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2 Samuel 16:13
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Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
cursed: 2 Samuel 16:5, 2 Samuel 16:6
cast dust: Heb. dusted him with dust, Acts 23:23, It was an ancient custom, in those warm and arid countries, to lay the dust before a person of distinction, by sprinkling the ground with water. Dr. Pococke and the consul were treated with this respect when they entered Cairo. The same custom is alluded to in the well-known fable of Phedrus, in which a slave is represented going before Augustus and officiously laying the dust. To throw dust in the air while a person was passing was therefore an act of great disrespect; to do so before a sovereign prince, an indecent outrage. But it is probable that Shimei meant more than disrespect and outrage to this afflicted king. Sir John Chardin informs us, that in the East, in general, those who demand justice against a criminal throw dust upon him, signifying that he ought to be put in the grave, and hence the common imprecation among the Turks and Persians, "Be covered with earth," or, "Earth be upon thy head.
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 19:21 - cursed
Cross-References
Now Sarai, Avram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, a Mitzrian, whose name was Hagar.
Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had borne him no children. And she had a female Egyptian servant, and her name was Hagar.
Sarai, Abram's wife, had no children, but she had a slave girl from Egypt named Hagar.
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not borne him any children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not borne him a child, but she had an Egyptian slave woman whose name was Hagar.
Nowe Sarai Abrams wife bare him no children, and she had a maide an Egyptian, Hagar by name.
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children, and she had an Egyptian servant-woman whose name was Hagar.
Abram's wife Sarai had not been able to have any children. But she owned a young Egyptian slave woman named Hagar,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And as David and his men went by the way,.... In the high road that led to Bahurim, taking no notice of the cursing of Shimei, which made him bolder and more impudent; here is a large pause in the Hebrew text, in the midst of this verse:
Shimei went along on the hill side over against him; as David and his men walked in the plain, he went on a range of hills that ran along right against them:
and cursed as he went; continued his curses and imprecations, to which he was the more emboldened by the behaviour of David and his men:
and threw stones at him, and cast dust; in a way of contempt, though the stones recoiled on his own head, and the dust flew in his own face, as the consequence of things showed; and now David composed and penned the seventh psalm, Psalms 7:1.
