As though they would have fetched wheat - This is a very obscure passage, and the double repetition in 2 Samuel 4:6–7 of the kin…

As though they would have fetched wheat.—Literally, fetching wheat. The English version gives the sense, since fetching w…

And they came thither into the midst of the house
They not only came to it, but entered into it, and went into the i…

See how Ishbosheth was murdered! When those difficulties dispirit us, which should sharpen our efforts, we betray both our heavenly crowns and our …