Eliphelet son of Ahasbai the Maacathite, Eliam son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, Eliphelet son of AhasbaiThe name "Eliphelet" means "God is deliverance" in Hebrew, reflecting a deep-seated belief in God's power to save and deliver His people. This name is a testament to the faith of the Israelites in God's providence and protection. "Ahasbai" is a name that appears only here in the Bible, and its meaning is uncertain, but it may be related to the Hebrew root for "brother" or "companion," suggesting a familial or close relationship. The mention of Eliphelet as the son of Ahasbai indicates a lineage that is significant enough to be recorded, highlighting the importance of family heritage and legacy in the biblical narrative. the Maacathite
This designation refers to Eliphelet's association with Maacah, a region or people group mentioned in the Bible. Maacah was a small Aramean kingdom located near the borders of Israel, and its people were often in contact with the Israelites. The inclusion of "the Maacathite" suggests a diverse and interconnected world where different cultures and peoples interacted. It also reflects the broader narrative of Israel's history, where alliances and conflicts with neighboring nations played a significant role. Eliam son of Ahithophel
"Eliam" means "God of the people" or "God is my kinsman," emphasizing a personal and communal relationship with God. This name underscores the centrality of God in the lives of the Israelites and their identity as His chosen people. "Ahithophel" is a well-known figure in the Bible, serving as a counselor to King David. His name means "brother of folly" or "my brother is foolishness," which is ironic given his reputation for wisdom. The mention of Eliam as the son of Ahithophel connects him to a significant biblical narrative involving loyalty, betrayal, and the complexities of human relationships. the Gilonite
This term identifies Eliam's origin from Giloh, a town in the hill country of Judah. Giloh is mentioned in the Bible as the hometown of Ahithophel, further linking Eliam to his father's legacy. The reference to "the Gilonite" situates Eliam within a specific geographical and cultural context, highlighting the importance of place and identity in the biblical world. It also serves as a reminder of the interconnectedness of the people and places in the biblical narrative, where individual accounts contribute to the larger tapestry of God's redemptive plan. Persons / Places / Events 1. ElipheletA warrior listed among David's mighty men. His name means "God is deliverance," reflecting a common theme of reliance on God for salvation and strength. 2. AhasbaiThe father of Eliphelet. Not much is known about him, but his mention signifies the importance of lineage and heritage in biblical accounts. 3. The MaacathiteRefers to Eliphelet's origin from Maacah, a region or people group often associated with the Arameans, indicating a diverse background among David's warriors. 4. EliamAnother of David's mighty men, known as the son of Ahithophel. His name means "God is my kinsman," suggesting a close relationship with God. 5. Ahithophel the GiloniteA counselor of David who later betrayed him by siding with Absalom. His account is a cautionary tale about loyalty and the consequences of betrayal. Teaching Points The Importance of Heritage and LineageUnderstanding one's background and family history can provide insight into personal identity and spiritual legacy. Reflect on how your heritage influences your faith journey. Diversity in God's KingdomThe inclusion of individuals from various backgrounds among David's mighty men highlights the diversity within God's people. Embrace and celebrate the diversity within your faith community. Loyalty and BetrayalAhithophel's account serves as a reminder of the importance of loyalty and the destructive nature of betrayal. Consider how you can cultivate loyalty in your relationships and guard against betrayal. God as DelivererThe names Eliphelet and Eliam both emphasize God's role as a deliverer and protector. Trust in God's deliverance in times of trouble and uncertainty. Bible Study Questions 1. How does understanding the heritage of Eliphelet and Eliam enhance your appreciation of their roles as David's mighty men? 2. In what ways can the diversity among David's warriors inspire us to embrace diversity within our own faith communities? 3. Reflect on a time when you experienced betrayal or were tempted to betray someone. How can the account of Ahithophel inform your understanding of loyalty? 4. How do the meanings of the names Eliphelet and Eliam ("God is deliverance" and "God is my kinsman") encourage you in your personal walk with God? 5. Considering the connections to other scriptures, how can you apply the lessons of loyalty and trust in God to your current life circumstances? Connections to Other Scriptures 2 Samuel 15-17The account of Ahithophel's betrayal of David provides context for understanding the significance of Eliam's lineage and the potential familial tensions. 1 Chronicles 11:36This parallel passage lists David's mighty men, providing additional context and confirming the importance of these warriors in David's reign. Psalm 41:9This verse, traditionally attributed to David, speaks of betrayal by a close friend, which can be connected to Ahithophel's account. People Abialbon, Abiel, Abiezer, Abishai, Adino, Agee, Ahasbai, Ahiam, Ahithophel, Anathoth, Ariel, Asahel, Azmaveth, Baanah, Bani, Benaiah, Benjamin, Benjaminites, David, Dodai, Dodo, Eleazar, Elhanan, Eliahba, Eliam, Elika, Eliphelet, Gareb, Heldai, Heleb, Helez, Hezrai, Hezro, Hiddai, Igal, Ikkesh, Ira, Ithai, Ittai, Jacob, Jashen, Jehoiada, Jesse, Joab, Jonathan, Maharai, Mebunnai, Naharai, Nahari, Nathan, Paarai, Ribai, Shammah, Sharar, Sibbecai, Uriah, Zalmon, Zelek, ZeruiahPlaces Adullam, Anathoth, Bahurim, Beeroth, Bethlehem, Carmel, Gaash, Gath, Gibeah, Gilo, Harod, Jerusalem, Kabzeel, Lehi, Maacah, Moab, Netophah, Pirathon, Tekoa, Valley of Rephaim, ZobahTopics Ahasbai, Ahas'bai, Ahithophel, Ahith'ophel, Eliam, Eli'am, Eliphelet, Eliph'elet, Gilo, Gilonite, Ma'acah, Maacathite, MaachathiteDictionary of Bible Themes 2 Samuel 23:8-39 5544 soldiers 2 Samuel 23:20-39 5087 David, reign of Library The Dying King's Last vision and Psalm
'Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, 2. The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and His word was in my tongue. 3. The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. 4. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy ScriptureA Libation to Jehovah
'And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate! 16. And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord. 17. And he said, Be it far from me, O Lord, that I should do this; is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture The Royal Jubilee
[Footnote: Preached on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.] '... He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. 4. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth, by clear shining after rain.'--2 SAMUEL xxiii. 3, 4. One of the Psalms ascribed to David sounds like the resolves of a new monarch on his accession. In it the Psalmist draws the ideal of a king, and says such …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture David's Dying Song
We shall notice first, that the Psalmist had sorrow in his house--" Although my house be not so with God." Secondly, he had confidence in the covenant--" yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant." And thirdly, he had satisfaction in his heart, for he says--" this is all my salvation, and all my desire. I. The Psalmist says he had sorrow in his house--"Although my house be not so with God." What man is there of all our race, who, if he had to write his history, would not need to use a great …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 1: 1855 Covenanting Sanctioned by the Divine Example.
God's procedure when imitable forms a peculiar argument for duty. That is made known for many reasons; among which must stand this,--that it may be observed and followed as an example. That, being perfect, is a safe and necessary pattern to follow. The law of God proclaims what he wills men as well as angels to do. The purposes of God show what he has resolved to have accomplished. The constitutions of his moral subjects intimate that he has provided that his will shall be voluntarily accomplished …
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting The Christian's Book
Scripture references 2 Timothy 3:16,17; 2 Peter 1:20,21; John 5:39; Romans 15:4; 2 Samuel 23:2; Luke 1:70; 24:32,45; John 2:22; 10:35; 19:36; Acts 1:16; Romans 1:1,2; 1 Corinthians 15:3,4; James 2:8. WHAT IS THE BIBLE? What is the Bible? How shall we regard it? Where shall we place it? These and many questions like them at once come to the front when we begin to discuss the Bible as a book. It is only possible in this brief study, of a great subject, to indicate the line of some of the answers. …
Henry T. Sell—Studies in the Life of the Christian Thoughts Upon the Appearance of Christ the Sun of Righteousness, or the Beatifick vision.
SO long as we are in the Body, we are apt to be governed wholly by its senses, seldom or never minding any thing but what comes to us through one or other of them. Though we are all able to abstract our Thoughts when we please from matter, and fix them upon things that are purely spiritual; there are but few that ever do it. But few, even among those also that have such things revealed to them by God himself, and so have infinitely more and firmer ground to believe them, than any one, or all their …
William Beveridge—Private Thoughts Upon a Christian Life The Truth of God
The next attribute is God's truth. A God of truth and without iniquity; just and right is he.' Deut 32:4. For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.' Psa 57:10. Plenteous in truth.' Psa 86:15. I. God is the truth. He is true in a physical sense; true in his being: he has a real subsistence, and gives a being to others. He is true in a moral sense; he is true sine errore, without errors; et sine fallacia, without deceit. God is prima veritas, the pattern and prototype …
Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity Covenanting According to the Purposes of God.
Since every revealed purpose of God, implying that obedience to his law will be given, is a demand of that obedience, the announcement of his Covenant, as in his sovereignty decreed, claims, not less effectively than an explicit law, the fulfilment of its duties. A representation of a system of things pre-determined in order that the obligations of the Covenant might be discharged; various exhibitions of the Covenant as ordained; and a description of the children of the Covenant as predestinated …
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting The Work of the Holy Spirit in Prophets and Apostles.
The work of the Holy Spirit in apostles and prophets is an entirely distinctive work. He imparts to apostles and prophets an especial gift for an especial purpose. We read in 1 Cor. xii. 4, 8-11, 28, 29, R. V., "Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.... For to one is given through the Spirit wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; to another faith, in the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, in the one Spirit; and to another workings …
R. A. Torrey—The Person and Work of The Holy Spirit The Blessings of Noah Upon Shem and Japheth. (Gen. Ix. 18-27. )
Ver. 20. "And Noah began and became an husbandman, and planted vineyards."--This does not imply that Noah was the first who began to till the ground, and, more especially, to cultivate the vine; for Cain, too, was a tiller of the ground, Gen. iv. 2. The sense rather is, that Noah, after the flood, again took up this calling. Moreover, the remark has not an independent import; it serves only to prepare the way for the communication of the subsequent account of Noah's drunkenness. By this remark, …
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—Christology of the Old Testament The Deity of the Holy Spirit.
In the preceding chapter we have seen clearly that the Holy Spirit is a Person. But what sort of a Person is He? Is He a finite person or an infinite person? Is He God? This question also is plainly answered in the Bible. There are in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments five distinct and decisive lines of proof of the Deity of the Holy Spirit. I. Each of the four distinctively Divine attributes is ascribed to the Holy Spirit. What are the distinctively Divine attributes? Eternity, omnipresence, …
R. A. Torrey—The Person and Work of The Holy Spirit How is Christ, as the Life, to be Applied by a Soul that Misseth God's Favour and Countenance.
The sixth case, that we shall speak a little to, is a deadness, occasioned by the Lord's hiding of himself, who is their life, and "the fountain of life," Ps. xxxvi. 9, and "whose loving-kindness is better than life," Ps. lxiii. 3, and "in whose favour is their life," Ps. xxx. 5. A case, which the frequent complaints of the saints manifest to be rife enough, concerning which we shall, 1. Shew some of the consequences of the Lord's hiding his face, whereby the soul's case will appear. 2. Shew the …
John Brown (of Wamphray)—Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life Thoughts Upon the Mystery of the Trinity.
THOUGH there be many in the World that seem to be Religious, there are but few that are so: One great Reason whereof is, because there are so many Mistakes about Religion, that it is an hard matter to hit upon the true Notion of it: And therefore desiring nothing in this World, so much as to be an Instrument in God's Hand to direct Men unto true Religion, my great Care must, and, by the Blessing of God, shall be to instil into them right Conceptions of him, that is the only Object of all Religious …
William Beveridge—Private Thoughts Upon a Christian Life The Covenant of Grace
Q-20: DID GOD LEAVE ALL MANKIND TO PERISH 1N THE ESTATE OF SIN AND MISERY? A: No! He entered into a covenant of grace to deliver the elect out of that state, and to bring them into a state of grace by a Redeemer. 'I will make an everlasting covenant with you.' Isa 55:5. Man being by his fall plunged into a labyrinth of misery, and having no way left to recover himself, God was pleased to enter into a new covenant with him, and to restore him to life by a Redeemer. The great proposition I shall go …
Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity Samuel
Alike from the literary and the historical point of view, the book[1] of Samuel stands midway between the book of Judges and the book of Kings. As we have already seen, the Deuteronomic book of Judges in all probability ran into Samuel and ended in ch. xii.; while the story of David, begun in Samuel, embraces the first two chapters of the first book of Kings. The book of Samuel is not very happily named, as much of it is devoted to Saul and the greater part to David; yet it is not altogether inappropriate, …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament Links 2 Samuel 23:34 NIV2 Samuel 23:34 NLT2 Samuel 23:34 ESV2 Samuel 23:34 NASB2 Samuel 23:34 KJV
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