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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comTreasury Of Scripture Knowledge - 2 Samuel 5:23 - 5:23
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inquired: 2Sa 5:19
fetch: Jos 8:2, Jos 8:7; 1Ch 14:14; Mat 9:29-30, Mat 8:23-25; Joh 9:6-7
the mulberry trees: The word bechaim, rendered mulberry trees, is rendered by Aquila, απιων, pear-trees, as the LXX also render in 1Ch 14:14-15; and so the Vulgate in both places has pyrorum. The Rabbins, however, believe bacha signifies the mulberry-tree; with whom Ursinus agrees. It more probably denotes a large shrub which the Arabs still call baca, from its distilling an odoriferous gum, from bachah to distil, as tears. Of this opinion is Celsius, who quotes a passage from Abulfadi, who describes it as a balsam shrub, having longish leaves, and bearing a large fruit with an acrid taste. M. Forskal mentions a tree by the name of beca, with leaves rather ovated, smooth, entire. Its berries are poisonous to the sheep.