2 Samuel 16:10-13
What have 2Sam 3:39, 2Sam 19:22; 1Kgs 2:5; Matt 16:23; Luke 9:54-56; 1Pet 2:23 so let him Gen 50:20; 1Kgs 22:21-23; 2Kgs 18:25; Lam 3:38-39; John 18:11 Who shall Job 9:12; Eccl 8:4; Dan 4:35; Rom 9:20 Behold 2Sam 12:11-12 came forth 2Sam 7:2; Gen 15:4 seeketh 2Sam 17:1-4; 2Kgs 19:37; 2Chr 32:21; Matt 10:21 the Lord Isa 10:5-7; Ezek 14:9, Ezek 20:25 the Lord Gen 29:32-33; Exod 2:24-25, Exod 3:7-8; 1Sam 1:11; Ps 25:18 affliction or, tears, Heb. eye requite Deut 23:5; Isa 27:7; Matt 5:11-12; Rom 8:28; 2Cor 4:17; 2Thess 1:7; Heb 12:10; 1Pet 4:12-19 cursed 2Sam 16:5-6 cast dust Heb. dusted him with dust, Acts 23:23; It was an ancient custom, in those warm and arid countries, to lay the dust before a person of distinction, by sprinkling the ground with water. Dr. Pococke and the consul were treated with this respect when they entered Cairo. The same custom is alluded to in the well-known fable of Phedrus, in which a slave is represented going before Augustus and officiously laying the dust. To throw dust in the air while a person was passing was therefore an act of great disrespect; to do so before a sovereign prince, an indecent outrage. But it is probable that Shimei meant more than disrespect and outrage to this afflicted king. Sir John Chardin informs us, that in the East, in general, those who demand justice against a criminal throw dust upon him, signifying that he ought to be put in the grave, and hence the common imprecation among the Turks and Persians, "Be covered with earth," or, "Earth be upon thy head."
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