* lighted on. Heb. found.
13 9:21 *margins
* Jehonadab.
Jer 35:6,8,14-19
* Jonadab. Rechab.
1Ch 2:55
* saluted. Heb. blessed.
Ge 31:55 47:7,10
* Is thine heart right.
1Ch 12:17,18 Joh 21:15-17 Ga 4:12
* give me.
Ezr 10:19 Eze 17:18 Ga 2:9
* he took him.
Jehu asked for the hand of Jehonadab not merely for the
purpose of assisting him into the chariot, but that he might
give him an assurance that he would assist him in the
prosecution of his desires; for giving the hand is considered
as a pledge of friendship and fidelity, or a form of entering
into a contract, among all nations. Mr. Bruce relates, that
when he entreated the protection of a {sheikh,} the great
people who were assembled came, "and after joining hands,
repeated a kind of prayer, of about two minutes long; by which
they declared themselves and their children accursed, if ever
they lifted their hands against me in the {tell,} (or field)
in the desert, or on the river; or, in case that I, or mine,
should fly to them for refuge, if they did not protect us at
the risk of their lives, their families, and their fortunes,
or, as they emphatically expressed it, to the death of the
last male child among them." Another striking instance occurs
in Ockley's History of the Saracens. Telha, just before he
died, asked one of Ali's men if he belonged to the emperor of
the faithful; and being informed that he did, "Give me then,"
said he, "your hand, that I may put mine in it, and by this
action renew the oath of fidelity which I have already made to
Ali."
Ac 8:31
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