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2 Samuel 5

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1 Y vinieron todas las tribus de Israel a David en Hebrón, y hablaron, diciendo: He aquí nosotros somos tus huesos y tú carne.

2 Y aun ayer y anteayer, cuando Saúl reinaba sobre nosotros, tú sacabas y volvías a Israel. Además el SEÑOR te ha dicho: Tú apacentarás a mi pueblo Israel, y tú serás sobre Israel príncipe.

3 Vinieron, pues, todos los ancianos de Israel al rey en Hebrón, y el rey David hizo con ellos alianza en Hebrón delante del SEÑOR; y ungieron a David por rey sobre Israel.

4 Era David de treinta años cuando comenzó a reinar, y reinó cuarenta años.

5 En Hebrón reinó sobre Judá siete años y seis meses; y en Jerusalén reinó treinta y tres años sobre todo Israel y Judá.

6 Entonces el rey y los suyos fueron a Jerusalén al jebuseo que habitaba en la tierra; el cual habló a David, diciendo: Tú no entrarás acá, si no echares los ciegos y los cojos; pensando: No entrará acá David.

7 Pero David tomó la fortaleza de Sion, la cual es la ciudad de David.

8 Y dijo David aquel día: ¿Quién llegará hasta los canales, y herirá al jebuseo, y a los cojos y ciegos, a los cuales el alma de David aborrece? Por esto se dijo: Ciego ni cojo no entrará en casa.

9 Y David moró en la fortaleza y le puso por nombre la Ciudad de David; y edificó alrededor, desde Millo para adentro.

10 Y David iba creciendo y aumentándose, y el SEÑOR Dios de los ejércitos era con él.

11 E Hiram rey de Tiro envió también embajadores a David, y madera de cedro, y carpinteros, y canteros para los muros, los cuales edificaron la casa de David.

12 Y entendió David que el SEÑOR le había confirmado por rey sobre Israel, y que había ensalzado su reino por amor de su pueblo Israel.

13 Y tomó David más concubinas y mujeres de Jerusalén después que vino de Hebrón, y le nacieron más hijos e hijas.

14 Estos son los nombres de los que le nacieron en Jerusalén: Samúa, y Sobab, y Natán, y Salomón,

15 e Ibhar, y Elisúa, y Nefeg,

16 y Jafía, y Elisama, y Eliada, y Elifelet.

17 Y oyendo los filisteos que habían ungido a David por rey sobre Israel, todos los filisteos subieron a buscar a David; lo cual cuando David lo oyó, vino a la fortaleza.

18 Y vinieron los filisteos, y se extendieron por el valle de Rafaim (de los gigantes ).

19 Entonces consultó David al SEÑOR, diciendo: ¿Iré contra los filisteos? ¿Los entregarás en mis manos? Y el SEÑOR respondió a David: Ve, porque ciertamente entregaré los filisteos en tus manos.

20 Y vino David a Baal-perazim, y allí los venció David, y dijo: Rompió el SEÑOR mis enemigos delante de mí, como quien rompe aguas. Y por esto llamó el nombre de aquel lugar Baal-perazim (el llano de las divisiones o de las roturas ).

21 Y dejaron allí sus ídolos, los cuales quemó David y los suyos.

22 Y los filisteos volvieron a venir, y se extendieron en el valle de Rafaim.

23 Y consultando David al SEÑOR, él le respondió: No subas; sino rodéalos, y vendrás a ellos por delante de los morales;

24 y cuando oyeres un estruendo que irá por las copas de los morales, entonces te moverás; porque el SEÑOR saldrá delante de ti a herir el campamento de los filisteos.

25 Y David lo hizo así, como el SEÑOR se lo había mandado; e hirió a los filisteos desde Gabaa hasta llegar a Gaza.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #6983

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6983. 'Neither since yesterday, nor since the day before' means that he has lacked it - the gift of speech - from eternity. This is clear from the meaning of 'since yesterday and since the day before' as from eternity. The reason why 'since yesterday and since the day before' means from eternity is that a period of time is meant by these words, in particular past time; but time spoken of in connection with the Lord or the Divine does not mean a period of time but what is eternal. There are two things proper to the natural order which have no existence in heaven, and even less in the Divine, namely space and time. For their non-existence in heaven and the existence of states instead - states of being instead of 'space', and states of coming-into-being or manifestation instead of 'time' - see 2625, 3938; and for the fact that areas of space and periods of time in heaven are states, 1274, 1382, 2625, 2788, 2837, 3254, 3356, 3387, 3404, 3827, 4321, 4814, 4882, 4901, 4916, 5605, 6110. But within the Divine which is above the heavens the absence of space and time is even more complete; for not even states exist within Him. Instead of space there is what is infinite, and instead of time what is eternal. These two are what periods of time or areas of space in the world correspond to, and are what states of being and of coming-into-being in the heavens correspond to.

[2] The fact that in the Word 'yesterday' and 'the day before' do not mean yesterday and the day before but past time in general is clear from places where those words are used, as in Joshua,

The waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went as yesterday [and] the day before 1 over all its banks. Joshua 4:18.

In the first Book of Samuel,

It happened, when all who knew Saul from yesterday and the day before 2 saw that, behold, he prophesied with the prophets . . . 1 Samuel 10:11.

In the second Book of Samuel,

The tribes of Israel said to David, Both yesterday and the day before, 3 when Saul was king over us, you were the one bringing Israel out and back. 2 Samuel 5:1-2.

In these places and elsewhere 'yesterday [and] the day before' stands for previously or past time. Now since 'yesterday and the day before' means time past, and the subject in the highest sense is the Lord, who in respect of the Divine Law or Divine Truth is represented by 'Moses', it is evident that 'since yesterday and since the day before' means from eternity. Eternity, meant by 'yesterday', is described in David as follows,

A thousand years in Your eyes are but as yesterday when it is past. Psalms 90:4.

Notes de bas de page:

1. literally, as yesterday three days ago

2. literally, from yesterday and three days ago

3. literally, Both yesterday and three days ago

  
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Arcana Coelestia #893

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893. Verse 13 And it happened in the six hundred and first year, at the beginning, on the first of the month, that the waters dried up from over the earth, and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and saw out, and behold, the face 1 of the ground was dry.

'It happened in the six hundred and first year' means a finishing point. 'At the beginning, on the first of the month' means a starting point. 'The waters dried up from over the earth' means that falsities were not at that time apparent. 'And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and saw out' means the light, once falsities had been removed, shed by the truths of faith, which he acknowledged and in which he had faith. 'And behold, the face 1 of the ground was dry' means regeneration.

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1. literally, the faces

[893a] 1 That 'it happened in the six hundred and first year means a finishing point is clear from the meaning of the number six hundred, dealt with at Chapter 7:6, in 737, as a beginning, and in particular in that verse as the beginning of temptation. The end of it is specified by the same number, with a whole year having now passed by. It took place therefore at the end of a year, and this also is why the words are added 'at the beginning, on the first of the month', meaning a starting point. In the Word any complete period is specified either by a day, or a week, or a month, or a year, and even by a hundred or a thousand years - for example, 'the days' mentioned in Genesis 1, which meant stages in the regeneration of the member of the Most Ancient Church. For in the internal sense day and year mean nothing else than a period of time; and meaning a period of time they also mean a state. Consequently a year stands in the Word for a period of time and for a state, as in Isaiah,

To proclaim the year of Jehovah's good pleasure, and the day of vengeance for our God; to comfort all who mourn. Isaiah 61:2.

This refers to the Lord's Coming. In the same prophet,

The day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redeemed had come. Isaiah 63:4.

Here too 'day' and 'year' stand for a period of time and for a state. In Habakkuk,

Your work, O Jehovah, in the midst of the years make it live, in the midst of the years do You make it known. Habakkuk 3:2.

Here 'years' stands for a period of time and for a state. In David,

'You are God Himself, and Your years have no end. Psalms 102:27.

This statement, in which 'years' stands for periods of time, means that time does not exist with God. The same applies in the present verse where 'the year' of the flood in no way means any one particular year but a period of time that is not determined by a specific number of years. At the same time it means a state. See what has been said already about 'years' in 482, 487, 488, 493.

1. This paragraph is not numbered in the Latin.

  
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