the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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2 Samuel 18:21
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And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.
And Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of man built.
The Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had built.
But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men were building.
Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
Now the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
Forsothe the Lord cam down to se the citee and tour, which the sones of Adam bildiden.
And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;
Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
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."