John Gill's Exposition on 2 Samuel 18:11

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Joab said unto the man that told him, etc.] That gave the above account of him: and, behold, thou sawest [him]; in reality; or, “didst thou see him?” is it a fact? and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground; kill him on the spot, that he might have dropped from the tree to the ground: and I would have given thee ten [shekels] of silver; on the news of it, for doing it, which was near twenty four shillings of our money; Josephus says f307 fifty shekels; the Arabic version has it ten thousand talents of silver, too great a sum by far: and a girdle? which was a mark of great honour, and a token of a commission under him, and of investing: him with a military office; (see <091804> 1 Samuel 18:4); it used to be given as an honorary reward to soldiers that behaved well, as on the contrary it was reckoned a reproach to be ungirt, or the girdle to be taken away f308.

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