1 ! Dauid exhorteth Salmon, and giueth charge as concerning Joab, Barzillai, and Shumei.
2 a I am ready to dye, as all men must.
3 b He sheweth how hard a thing it is to gouerne, and that none can do it wel, except he obey God.
4 / Ebr. a man shal not be cut of to thee from of the throne.
4 c And without hypocrisie.
5 d He shed his blood in time of peace, as if there had bene warre.
5 e He put the bloody sworde into his sheathe.
7 f That is, they delt mercifully with me.
9 g Let him be punished with death.
13 h For she feared, lest he wolde worke treaon against the King.
15 i In signe of their fauour & consent.
16 / Ebr. cause not my face to turn away.
17 ! Adoniiah asketh Abishag to wife.
19 k In token of reuerence, and that others by his example might haue her in greatest honour.
22 l Meaning, that if he shullde haue granted Abishag, which was so deare to his father, he wolde afterwarde haue aspired to the kingdome.
26 / Ebr. a man of death.
26 m When he fled before Absalom, {2 Sam. 15, 24}
28 n He toke Adoniiahs parte when he wolde haue vsurped the kingdome, {Chap. 1,7}.
29 o Thinking to be saued by the holines of the place.
31 p For it was lawful to take the wilful murtherer from the altar, {Exod. 31,14}
33 q Joab shalbe justely punished for the blood that he hathe cruelly shed.
35 ! Zadok was placed in Abiathars roume.
35 r And so toke the office of the hie Priest from the house of Eli, & restored it to the house of Phinehas.
39 s Thus God appointeth the waies & meanes to bring his juste judgements vpon wicked.
40 t His couetous minde moued him rather to venture his life, then to lose his worldely profit, which he had by his seruants.
44 u For thogh the woldest denie, yet thine owne conscience wold accuse thee, for reuiling & doing wrong to my father, {2Sam. 16:5}.
46 x Because all his enemies were destroied.