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IV. THE APPENDIX TO THE HISTORY OF DAVID
1. The Famines and the Wars with the Philistines
CHAPTER 21
_ 1. The Famine and the Gibeonites (2 Samuel 21:1)_
2. The Wars with the Philistines (2 Samuel...
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1 SAMUEL 21-24. These Chapter s form an appendix of material from
various sources. One of the editors, perhaps the one to whom the book
substantially owes its present form, seems to have met with
diff...
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Burial of the bones of Saul and his sons
11. The curious addition of the Sept. to this verse, "and they were
unfastened, and Dan the son of Joash, who was of the descendants of
the giant, took them d...
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AND RIZPAH THE DAUGHTER OF AIAH, &C.— Commentators have justly
observed from hence, that the hanging of these carcases for so long a
time in the open air, could not be in consequence of any command fr...
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_Rizpah's Sad Vigil._ 2 Samuel 21:10-14
10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for
her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped
upon them out of heave...
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_AND IT WAS TOLD DAVID WHAT RIZPAH THE DAUGHTER OF AIAH, THE CONCUBINE
OF SAUL, HAD DONE._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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THE FAMINE AND SOME EXPLOITS AGAINST THE PHILISTINES
1. _It is_ FOR SAUL, AND FOR _his_ BLOODY HOUSE] rather, 'upon Saul
and his house rests bloodshed.' THE GIBEONITES] The lives of the
Gibeonites ha...
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DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL
2 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 21
THE *GIBEONITES PUNISH SAUL’S FAMILY
V1 For three years while David was king, the people did not have
enough to eat. So David pr...
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וַ יֻּגַּ֖ד לְ דָוִ֑ד אֵ֧ת אֲשֶׁר
־עָשְׂתָ֛ה רִצְפָּ֥ה בַת ־אַיָּ֖ה
פִּלֶ֥גֶשׁ שָׁאֽוּל׃...
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CHAPTER XXVIII
_ THE FAMINE._
2 Samuel 21:1.
WE now enter on the concluding part of the reign of David. Some of the
matters in which he was most occupied during this period are recorded
only in Chro...
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A DEVOTED MOTHER
2 Samuel 21:1
The time of this famine cannot be fixed with certainty. Probably it
took place before Absalom's rebellion. The reason for it was found in
Saul's slaughter of the Gibeo...
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As at the close of the Book of Judges, so here, several matters are
dealt with not in chronological order, or related, but as illustrating
the times which have been under consideration.
In many sense...
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_Done. Her piety and affliction were extraordinary. She had been
brought up in delicacies, and was a person of uncommon beauty, so as
to captivate Abner, chap. iii. 8. She must now have been advanced...
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(10) В¶ And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread
it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water
dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds o...
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In the sketch proposed of these books of scripture there is of course
no pretension to notice every point of interest they contain, but only
a general comprehensive view, as far as the Lord enables me...
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And, first of all, the government of God, who forgets nothing, and
with whom everything has its results, is recalled to David and to his
people by means of the Gibeonites. It is no longer necessary fo...
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AND IT WAS TOLD DAVID WHAT RIZPAH THE DAUGHTER OF AIAH, THE CONCUBINE
OF SAUL, HAD DONE. Whether this was told out of good will or ill will
is not certain; however, it was not disagreeable to David, b...
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And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine
of Saul, had done.
Ver. 11. And it was told David what Rizpah … had done.] Who liked it
well, and thought it no disparagement to...
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_It was told David what Rizpah had done_ And he heard it with so much
approbation, that he thought fit to imitate her piety, being by her
example provoked to do what hitherto he had neglected, to best...
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1 The three yeeres famine for the Gibeonites, cease, by hanging seuen
of Sauls sonnes.
10 Rizpahs kindnes vnto the dead.
12 Dauid burieth the bones of Saul and Ionathan in his fathers
sepulchre.
15...
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THE DIFFICULTY WITH THE GIBEONITES ADJUSTED...
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We cannot say with certainty when the events of this chapter occurred,
for they are not necessarily chronological, but spoken of as having
taken place "in the days of David." God sent a famine in the...
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10-14 That a guilty land should enjoy many years of plenty, calls for
gratitude; and we need not wonder misused abundance should be punished
with scarcity; yet how few are disposed to ask of the Lord...
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IT WAS TOLD DAVID; who heard it with so much approbation, that he
thought fit to imitate her piety, being by her example provoked to do
what hitherto he had neglected, to bestow an honourable intermen...
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2 Samuel 21:11 David H1732 told H5046 (H8714) Rizpah H7532 daughter
H1323 Aiah H345 concubine H6370 Saul H7586 done H6213 (H8804)
told David - 2 Samuel 2:4; Ruth 2:11-12...
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CONTENTS: Three years famine. Saul's sons slain. War with Philistines.
CHARACTERS: God, David, Rizpah, Ishbi-benab, Abishai, Sebechai, Saph,
Elhanan, Jonathan.
CONCLUSION: When we are under God's ju...
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2 Samuel 21:1. _There was a famine three years,_ and in succession.
Men, under the aspects of dying, like the seamen in Jonah's case, are
led to the profoundest researches of conscience.
2 Samuel 21:8...
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_Then there was a famine in the days of David three years._
THE QUICKENING OF DAVID’S CONSCIENCE BY RIZPAH’S EXAMPLE
Some years since it was found that many returned emigrants were ending
their days...
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2 SAMUEL 21:1 Epilogue. The last four chapters provide an epilogue to
David’s story. They contain six episodes, which are not necessarily
in chronological order (e.g., the first episode occurred “in t...
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
2 Samuel 21:10. “UNTIL WATER DROPPED,” etc. The early rain usually
began in October. But rain may have been sent earlier as a token of
forgiveness. The reason of the bo...
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EXPOSITION
2 SAMUEL 21:1
THERE WAS A FAMINE IN THE DAYS OF DAVID; Hebrew, _and there was.
_There is an entire absence of any mark of time to show in what part
of David's reign this famine took place....
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Now in chapter twenty-one it is recorded that at this time,
There were three years of famine in the land; So David sought the
Lord. [Why the famine?] And the Lord said, The famine was in judgment
bec...
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2 Samuel 2:4; Ruth 2:11; Ruth 2:12...
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David — Who heard it with so much approbation, that he thought fit
to imitate her piety, being by her example provoked to do what
hitherto he had neglected, to bestow an honourable interment on the
re...