King James Version
2 Samuel 3:10 in the King James Version says “To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan ...” — study this verse from 2 Samuel chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.”
2 Samuel 3:10 · KJV
Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?
So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD hath sworn to David, even so I do to him;
To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.
And he could not answer Abner a word again, because he feared him.
And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? saying also, Make thy league with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“To translate”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
“the kingdom”
H4467dominion, i.e., (abstractly) the estate (rule) or (concretely) the country (realm)
“from the house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“and to set up”
H6965to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“over Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“and over Judah”
H3063jehudah (or judah), the name of five israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
“from Dan”
H1835dan, one of the sons of jacob; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory; likewise a place in palestine colonized by them
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
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