1 a We are of thy kinred, & most nere joyned vnto thee.
3 ! Dauid is made King ouer all Israel
3 b That is, taking the Lord to witnes: for the Arke was yet in Abinadabs house.
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.
7 ! He taketh the forte of Zion.
8 d The idoles shulde entre no more into that place.
9 e He buylt from the towne house rounde about to his owne house, {1 Chron. 11,8}.
19 ! He asketh counsel of the Lord.
19 f By Abiathar the Priest.
20 ! And ouercometh the Philistims twise.
20 / Or the plaine of diuisions.
22 g Meaning, the valley of gyants, which Dauid called Baal perazim because of his victorie.
25 h Which was in the tribe of Benjamin, but the Philistims did possesse it.