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Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we [are] thy bone and thy flesh.

Then came all the tribes, — i.e., Great numbers out of all tribes: out of Zebulun only, fifty thousand. 1 Chronicles 12:33 Josephus saith Lib. vii. cap. 2. that Zebulun came full and whole: and the Scripture saith that they were not of a double heart. Christ’s subjects are a willing people; Psalms 110:3 they flee to him as clouds, and as doves to their windows, Isaiah 60:8 and he reeeiveth them graciously, Hosea 14:2 though they had long stood out as these tribes had. Nimis sero te amavi. too slowly I had loved thee. August.

Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. — We may boldly say the same to Christ, claiming kindred, inasmuch as he is "bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh." Ephesians 5:30 Hebrews 2:15-16

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Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.

That leddest out and broughtest in. — Educebas et reducebas.

And the Lord said to thee, — viz., When thou wast first anointed by Samuel, 1 Samuel 16:13 then was this word added to that sign; though for brevity’s sake it is not there mentioned. So when Christ was baptized, there came a voice from heaven. Matthew 3:16-17 And so still he sanctifieth and cleanseth his Church "with the washing of water by the word." Ephesians 5:26-27

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So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel.

And king David made a league with them, — sc., That he would be their liege-lord, as they would be his liege-people; that is, as the word signifieth, mutually bound each to other.

In Hebron. — Where, haply, Abraham’s altar still continued. Compare 1 Samuel 15:7 .

And they anointed David king. — As other nations crowned their kings, so the Israelites anointed them as types of the Messiah, who was "anointed with the oil of gladness above his fellows," and for them also.

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David [was] thirty years old when he began to reign, [and] he reigned forty years.

David was thirty years old. — So was Christ when he entered upon his kingdom, which he hath twofold: 1. Patientiae; of patience. 2. Potentiae, of power. Luke 3:22-23

And he reigned forty years. — Which consisting of four tens, signifieth the fulness of times, and perfection of things, saith Angelomus: wherein also David was a type of Christ.

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In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.

Seven years and six months. — These last six months are not reckoned in the whole sum for the roundness of the number: or, as some Rabbis Jerome in Tradit. will have it, because six months David lay sick in Hebron: or, six months he fled before Absalom; and so there is no count made of them.

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And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.

And the king and his men. — Those of the several tribes that came unto him at this time armed and well appointed, fit for some noble exploit.

Went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites. — Who still held the tower of Zion, Judges 1:23 ; Judges 19:10-11 being a company of ungracious people there gathered together, such as were in that city of Thracia called Poneropolis, whither King Philip had assembled all the infamous persons, and men of evil demeanour, that many places might not be troubled with them. Theopomp. xiii. Philip.

Which spake unto David. — Scommate militari, by a military scoff, which did not weaken but waken David’s courage.

Except thou take away the blind and the lame. — Which are the best men that we need to set for defence of this our impregnable fort. These thou hadst best deal with first, and then with us: whom thou shalt find to have both eyes and legs to withstand thee. Others think that by "blind and lame" these Jebusites mean their tutelary gods - called by the Israelites blind and lame idols in contempt - who would not fail to defend them against all adverse forces.

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Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same [is] the city of David.

Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. — And the rather for their carnal confidence which God had rejected, and David soon after confuted; wherein also he became a lively type of Christ, perfectly triumphing over all our enemies, and treading Satan under our feet. Romans 16:20

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And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, [that are] hated of David’s soul, [he shall be chief and captain]. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.

Whosoever getteth up to the gutter. — This bitter scoff had not so much encouraged as enraged David and his men to assault the fort, which they took by scaling, Joab venturing almost as hard for it, as that brave Englishman did, who, at the storming of an earthwork in the low countries, caught hold of a pike in the hand of his enemy, and was thereby drawn up to the taking of the place.

Wherefore they said. — Or, Because they had said, even the blind and the lame, He shall not come into the house, that is, into the hold. Now because they had put this scorn upon him, David was set upon it to have them out. So the king of France, jesting at William the Conqueror’s great belly, whereof he said he lay in at Rouen, so irritated him, as he being recovered of a sickness, entered France in the chiefest time of their fruits, making spoil of all in his way till he came even to Paris, where the king of France then was, to show him of his activity after his illness: and from thence marched to the city of Mentz, which he utterly sacked, … Dan Hist., 42.

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