Ver. 1. ] This chapter is the same also with 2 Samuel 10. [See Trapp on “2Sa 10:1”] &c.
Ver. 4. And shaved them.] Sic legatos Davidis deturpans illudit, Popish priests say they do therefore shave their beards, lest while they drink Christ’s blood out of the chalice, any drop thereof should hang upon their beards. Oh, shameful superstition! Hard by their buttocks.] This is check to the fashion mongers of our time, saith Piscator; who wear their clothes so close, and cloaks so short, that they cover not their buttocks. Piscator.