2 Samuel 5:13

Contextual Overview

¹¹King Hiram of Tyre sent envoys to David; he also sent cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons, and they built a palace for David. ¹¹ Hiram king of Tzor sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house. ¹¹ And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house. ¹¹ So Hiram, the king of Tyre, sent messengers to David, along with cedar trees and craftsmen skilled in wood and in stone masonry, and they built a house for David. ¹¹ And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also carpenters and masons who built David a house. ¹¹ Hiram king of the city of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonecutters. They built a palace for David. ¹¹ King Hiram of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons. They built a palace for David. ¹¹Now Hiram the king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees, carpenters, and stonemasons; and they built a house (palace) for David. ¹¹ Then Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees, carpenters, and stonemasons; and they built a house for David. ¹¹ Hiram also king of Tyrus sent messengers to Dauid, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons for walles: and they built Dauid an house.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Genesis 25:5, Genesis 25:6, Deuteronomy 17:17, 1 Chronicles 3:9, 1 Chronicles 14:3-7, 2 Chronicles 11:18-21, 2 Chronicles 13:21

Reciprocal: Genesis 16:3 - his Judges 8:30 - many wives Judges 19:1 - a concubine 1 Samuel 25:43 - his wives 2 Samuel 11:27 - fetched her 2 Samuel 12:2 - exceeding 1 Kings 11:3 - seven hundred 2 Chronicles 11:21 - eighteen wives

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And David took [him] more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron,.... He had six when he was at Hebron, 2 Samuel 3:2, and now he took more, which was not to his honour, and contrary to the law of God, Deuteronomy 17:17; the concubines were a sort of half wives, as the word may signify, or secondary ones, and under the others:

and there were yet sons and daughters born to David; besides those in Hebron mentioned in 2 Samuel 3:2.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 5:13. David took him more concubines — He had, in all conscience, enough before; he had, in the whole, eight wives and ten concubines. That dispensation permitted polygamy, but from the beginning it was not so; and as upon an average there are about fourteen males born to thirteen females, polygamy is unnatural, and could never have entered into the original design of God.