Geneva Bible Notes: 2 Samuel 5

2 Samuel 5:1 ^a We are of thy kinred, & most nere joyned vnto thee.

2 Samuel 5:3 ^! Dauid is made King ouer all Israel

2 Samuel 5:3 ^b That is, taking the Lord to witnes: for the Arke was yet in Abinadabs house.

2 Samuel 5:6 ^c The children of God called idoles blinde and lame guides: therefore the Jebusites ment, that thei shulde proue that their gods were nether blinde nor lame.

2 Samuel 5:7 ^! He taketh the forte of Zion.

2 Samuel 5:8 ^d The idoles shulde entre no more into that place.

2 Samuel 5:9 ^e He buylt from the towne house rounde about to his owne house, {1 Chron. 11,8}.

2 Samuel 5:11 ^/ Ebr. Zor.

2 Samuel 5:19 ^! He asketh counsel of the Lord.

2 Samuel 5:19 ^f By Abiathar the Priest.

2 Samuel 5:20 ^! And ouercometh the Philistims twise.

2 Samuel 5:20 ^/ Or the plaine of diuisions.

2 Samuel 5:22 ^g Meaning, the valley of gyants, which Dauid called Baal perazim because of his victorie.

2 Samuel 5:25 ^h Which was in the tribe of Benjamin, but the Philistims did possesse it.