John Gill's Exposition on 2 Samuel 16:5

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And when King David came to Bahurim, etc.] The Targum is, Alemath, perhaps the same that is said to be a city of the Levites, given unto them out of the tribe of Benjamin, (<130660>1 Chronicles 6:60) for the man next described, who was of this place, was a Benjaminite, (<101916>2 Samuel 19:16); (see Gill on “<100316>2 Samuel 3:16”); David was not yet come to the city itself, but into the neighbourhood of it, the fields adjacent to it: and behold, thence came out a man of the family of Saul; a descendant of a branch of his family, who had entertained a private grudge and secret enmity against David, to whom he imputed the fall of the family of Saul: whose name [was] Shimei, the son of Gera: which might be a name common in the tribe of Benjamin, one of Benjamin’s sons being named Gera, (<014621>Genesis 46:21). Some say f268 he was the same with Nebat, the father of Jeroboam; but he was of the tribe of Ephraim, this of Benjamin: he came forth, and cursed still as he came; he came out of Bahurim, of which place he was, and all the way he came continued cursing David, until he came near unto him.

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