Komentaryong Sumisipi para sa 2 Samuel 2:18

with perfect beauty Heb. בַּעֲדִי עֲדָיִם, [a form] expressing perfection. But Menachem (p. 131) explained בַּעֲדִי עֲדָיִם as related to the word עַד, eternity, as (Isa. 26:4): “Trust in the Lord forever (עֲדֵי עַד)”; enjusque a s(i)egle in Old French, to eternity [lit. for centuries]. Dunash (p. 83), however, interpreted it as a word for ornaments. The declension of עַדִי עֲדָיִם is one of the ten nouns: lion, lions (אֲרִי אֲרָיִם) ; deer [sing.], deer [pl.] (צְבִי צְבָיִם) ; kid, kids (גְדִי גְּדָיִם).

The race is not to the swift. Isohel’s swiftness³⁰See II Shmuel 2:18. did not avail him when his time [to die] arrived.³¹His swiftness allowed him to catch up with Avneir, who killed him. See II Shmuel 2:23.