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2 Samuel 17:12

So wollen wir ihn überfallen, an welchem Ort wir ihn finden, und wollen über ihn kommen, wie der Tau auf die Erde fällt, daß wir von ihm und allen seinen Männern nicht einen übriglassen.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ahithophel;   Armies;   Council;   Dew;   Diplomacy;   Falsehood;   Friendship;   Spies;   Strategy;   Symbols and Similitudes;   War;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Emblems of the Holy Spirit, the;   Prudence;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ahithophel;   Amasa;   Dew;   Hushai;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Absalom;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Friend, Friendship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ahithophel;   Dew;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Predestination;   Samuel, Books of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ahithophel ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Absalom;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ahith'ophel;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Botany;   Dew;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Absalom;   Dew;  

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
So wollen wir ihn überfallen, an welchem Orte wir ihn finden, und wir wollen über ihn kommen, wie der Tau auf die Erde fällt, daß wir von ihm und all seinen Leuten, die bei ihm sind, nicht einen einzigen übriglassen.
Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Und wir werden über ihn kommen an einem der Orte, wo er sich befindet, und uns auf ihn niederlassen, wie der Tau auf den Erdboden fällt; und es wird von ihm und von all den Männern, die bei ihm sind, auch nicht einer übrigbleiben.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in some place: 1 Samuel 23:23

we will light: This is a very beautiful and expressive figure. The dew in Palestine, and other warm climates, falls fast, sudden, and heavy; and it falls upon every spot of earth, so that not a blade of grass escapes it. It is therefore no inapt emblem of a numerous and active army; and it was, perhaps, for this reason that the Romans called their light armed forces rorarii. 1 Kings 20:10, 2 Kings 18:23, 2 Kings 19:24, Isaiah 10:13, Isaiah 10:14, Obadiah 1:3

Reciprocal: Psalms 71:4 - out of the

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found,.... For such a numerous army, which would be spread abroad, could not well fail of finding him out, let him be in what lurking place he would; whereas he might lie concealed, and escape so small a number as twelve thousand men:

and we will light upon him as the dew falleth upon the ground; whose drops are innumerable, and cover all the ground where they fall; and the phrase not only expresses their numbers, but the irresistible force they should come with, and the manner, secretly, unawares, opportunely; the Romans had a sort of soldiers, called from the dew "rorarii", who carried light armour, and fought first in the battle, from whence they had their name, because dew falls before it rains n:

and of him, and of all the men that [are] with him, there shall not be left so much as one; so that for the future Absalom would sit easy upon the throne, there being none left to molest him.

n Valtrinus de Milit. Roman. l. 3. c. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As the dew - Like the drops of dew, in the vast number of our host, and in our irresistible and unavoidable descent upon our enemies.


 
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