Teks -- 2 Samuel 19:26 (NET)

19:26 He replied, “My lord the king, my servant deceived me! I said, ‘Let me get my donkey saddled so that I can ride on it and go with the king,’ for I am lame.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: 2Sa 19:26 - Deceived me

By carrying away the ass which I bid him saddle for me.

JFB: 2Sa 19:24-30 - Mephibosheth . . . came down to meet the king

The reception given to Mephibosheth was less creditable to David. The sincerity of that prince's grief for the misfortunes of the king cannot be doubted.

JFB: 2Sa 19:24-30 - He had neither dressed his feet

Not taken the bath,

JFB: 2Sa 19:24-30 - nor trimmed his beard

The Hebrews cut off the hair on the upper lip (see on Lev 13:45), and cheeks, but carefully cherished it on the chin from ear to ear. Besides dyeing it black or red colors, which, however, is the exception, and not the rule in the East, there are various modes of trimming it: they train it into a massy, bushy form, swelling and round; or they terminate it like a pyramid, in a sharp point. Whatever the mode, it is always trimmed with the greatest care; and they usually carry a small comb for the purpose. The neglect of this attention to his beard was an undoubted proof of the depth of Mephibosheth's grief. The king seems to have received him upbraidingly, and not to have been altogether sure either of his guilt or innocence. It is impossible to commend the cavalier treatment, any more than to approve the partial award, of David in this case. If he were too hurried and distracted by the pressure of circumstances to inquire fully into the matter, he should have postponed his decision; for if by "dividing the land" (2Sa 19:29) he meant that the former arrangement should be continued by which Mephibosheth was acknowledged the proprietor, and Ziba the farmer, it was a hardship inflicted on the owner to fix him with a tenant who had so grossly slandered him. But if by "dividing the land," they were now to share alike, the injustice of the decision was greatly increased. In any view, the generous, disinterested spirit displayed by Mephibosheth was worthy a son of the noble-hearted Jonathan.|| 08543||1||10||0||@Barzillai the Gileadite==--The rank, great age, and chivalrous devotion of this Gileadite chief wins our respect. His declining to go to court, his recommendation of his son, his convoy across the Jordan, and his parting scene with the king, are interesting incidents. What mark of royal favor was bestowed on Chimham has not been recorded; but it is probable that David gave a great part of his personal patrimony in Beth-lehem to Chimham and his heirs in perpetuity (Jer 41:17).

TSK: 2Sa 19:26 - I will saddle // thy servant

I will saddle : 2Sa 16:2, 2Sa 16:3

thy servant : 2Sa 4:4

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 2Sa 19:26 - My servant deceived me

My servant deceived me by carrying away the ass which I bid him saddle for me.

Haydock: 2Sa 19:26 - Despised

Despised. Hebrew and Chaldean, "acted treacherously against me." (Menochius)

Gill: 2Sa 19:26 - And he answered, my lord, O king, my servant deceived me // said, I will saddle me an ass // that I may ride thereon, and go to the king, because thy servant is lame

And he answered, my lord, O king, my servant deceived me,.... His servant Ziba, who, instead of saddling an ass for him by his order, went off with that and another himself, 2Sa 16:1; for thy servant

said, I will saddle me an ass; he not only determined this in his own mind, but gave orders to his servant to saddle one for him:

that I may ride thereon, and go to the king, because thy servant is lame; and could not walk afoot, being lame of both his feet, 2Sa 4:4.