[135] Comp. 2 Kings xi. 15.
[136] See Deut. xix. 13.
[137] 2 Sam. iii. 28, 29.
[138] אָנֶה וָאָנָה (1 Kings ii. 36).
[139] It should be remembered that when Shimei came to meet David on his return, he managed to muster one thousand of his Benjamite kinsmen. Such local influence might prove troublesome.
[140] Achish seems to have been the dynastic name of the kings of Gath (1 Sam. xxi. 10, xxvii. 2). If this was the Achish, son of Maoch, with whom David had taken refuge fifty years before, he must now have been a very old man.
[141] Esth. ii. 5.
[142] Prov. xix. 11, xx. 2, 8, 26.
[143] 1 Kings ii. 7; Jer. xli. 17.
[144] Lev. x. 1-20; Num. iii. 4, xxvi. 61. This has been not unnaturally inferred from the prohibition to the priests to drink wine while serving the tabernacle lest they die, which occurs immediately after the catastrophe of the two priests (Lev. x. 9-11).