Komentaryong Sumisipi para sa 2 Samuel 1:21

anoint a shield They were shields of boiled leather, and they would anoint them with oil so that the weapons would glide off. The same is mentioned concerning Saul (II Sam. 1:21): “For there the shield of the mighty was rejected.” It rejected its anointing and did not absorb it, and Saul’s shield became as though it was not anointed with oil.

and does not fail He does not eject into her inferior sperm, which would be cast out of her body without impregnating her. Every expression of געילה means casting out, and so it is in the language of the Mishnah (Avodah Zarah 75a), One must purge them (מגעילן) with boiling water. Similarly (II Sam. 1:21), “for there the shield of the mighty was rejected (נגעל).” Its anointing was cast out, and it was as though it had not been anointed with oil, for they were accustomed to anointing the leather shields in order that it be smooth and cause the spear or javelin that strikes it to glide off. It is like (Isa. 21:5), “princes, anoint a shield.”

ונתתי משכני בתוככם ולא תגעל נפשי אתכם, “I will place My Sanctuary among you and My spirit will not reject you.” The word געילה, is an expression of פליטה, “retching, vomiting.” We find the word in that sense in Samuel II 1,21 כי שם נגעל מגן גבורים, “for there (Gilboa) the shield of warriors lay rejected.” David (the author) meant that the shield of the Jewish warriors had rejected the oil of anointing applied to them. In a similar vein we can understand verse 44 in our chapter לא מאסתים ולא געלתים, {even when I punished them by exiling them) “I did not despise them or reject them.” G’d is saying that He did not drive the Jewish people away from Him. Onkelos translates the words ולא תגעל נפשי אתכם similarly, saying ולא ירחק מימרי יתכון.

ולא תגעל נפשי אתכם This means AND MY SPIRIT SHALL NOT LOATHE YOU. The root געל wherever it occurs denotes the casting out (as though spewing) or something that has been absorbed in another substance. In a similar sense the verb is used in (II Samuel 1:21) “For there the shield of the mighty was נגעל, [the shield of Saul, as though it had never been anointed with oil]”, i. e. it did not show itself receptive to being anointed, but ejected, as it were, the oily substance with which it had been smeared; for they used to smear leather shields with boiled fat in order to make the blow of the arrow or the spear glide off, so that it should not penetrate the leather. (Thus, when two things have been in the closest association, the term געל may be used of that which finally discards the other. It spews it out, as it were, it is sick of it, loathes it.)