King James Version
2 Samuel 23:2 in the King James Version says “The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.” — study this verse from 2 Samuel chapter 23 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.”
2 Samuel 23:2 · KJV
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,
The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
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. He: or, Be thou ruler, etc
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“The Spirit”
H7307wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the
“of the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“spake”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“was in my tongue”
H3956the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame,
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