the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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2 Samuel 17:18
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Bahurim: 2 Samuel 3:16, 2 Samuel 16:5, 2 Samuel 19:16
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When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth."
from now on when you till the ground, it shall not yield its strength to you; you shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.
You will work the ground, but it will not grow good crops for you anymore, and you will wander around on the earth."
When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth."
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield to thee its strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."
"When you cultivate the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength [it will resist producing good crops] for you; you shall be a fugitive and a vagabond [roaming aimlessly] on the earth [in perpetual exile without a home, a degraded outcast]."
Whanne thou schalt worche the erthe, it schal not yyue his fruytis to thee; thou schalt be vnstable of dwellyng and fleynge aboute on erthe in alle the daies of thi lijf.
when thou tillest the ground, it doth not add to give its strength to thee -- a wanderer, even a trembling one, thou art in the earth.'
When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Nevertheless, a lad saw them, and told Absalom,.... Saw them conversing with the girl, and departing for David's army; according to Josephus o, they were some horsemen that saw them about two furlongs or a quarter mile from Jerusalem, and acquainted Absalom with it:
but they went both of them away quickly; made all the haste they could with their message to David:
and came to a man's house in Bahurim; where very probably they had been informed David had been, whither he came weary, and had refreshment, 2 Samuel 16:14; or rather, perceiving they were discovered and pursued, they turned in hither, the first place they came to, for safety:
which had a well in his court; which they observed, and was the reason of their turning in:
whither they went down; to hide themselves from their pursuers, it being dry, as sometimes wells were in the summertime: Josephus says p, a woman let them down by a rope.
o Antiqu. l. 7. c. 9. sect. 7. p Ibid.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Bahurim - See the marginal reference. They were not all Shimeis in Bahurim.