This dead dog — See the marginal reference and the note on 2 Samuel 9:8.

Go over — The ravine, possibly…

Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king
A sister's son of his, and a general in the army, who could not b…

David bore Shimei's curses much better than Ziba's flatteries; by these he was led to make a wrong judgment about another, by those to make a right…