Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadJohn Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 5:3 - 5:3
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
2Sa_5:3 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.
Ver. 3. 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 1Sa_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.