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Verse 2 Samuel 21:16. _BEING GIRDED WITH A NEW_ SWORD] As the word
_sword_ is not in the original, we may apply the term _new_ to his
_armour_ in general; he had got new arms, a new coat of mail, or
s...
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ISHBI-BENOB - A corrupt reading. The whole passage should perhaps run
thus: “And David waxed faint. So they halted in Gob (as in 2 Samuel
21:18). And there was a man (in Gob) which was of the sons of...
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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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DAVID'S HEROES (first section). _Cf._ above. (J). These verses are
probably from the same source as 2 Samuel 23:8 ff., and the source is
no doubt ancient. The events in 2 Samuel 21:15 ff. and 2 Samuel...
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GIANT. Rapha. See App-23 and App-25,
THOUGHT TO HAVE SLAIN, or, said he would _slay._...
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Heroic exploits in the Philistine wars
This section is quite unconnected with the preceding narrative. It is
perhaps a fragment from some "book of golden deeds" recording the
exploits of David and hi...
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_Ishbi-benob_ Perhaps = "dweller on a height," a name given him
because he lived in some inaccessible castle. But there are good
reasons for suspecting that there is some corruption in the text, and
t...
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_Battles With the Philistines._ 2 Samuel 21:15-22
15 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David
went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the
Philistines: and Dav...
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_AND ISHBIBENOB, WHICH WAS OF THE SONS OF THE GIANT, THE WEIGHT OF
WHOSE SPEAR WEIGHED THREE HUNDRED SHEKELS OF BRASS IN WEIGHT, HE BEING
GIRDED WITH A NEW SWORD, THOUGHT TO HAVE SLAIN DAVID._
Ishbi-...
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21:16 Raphah (c-9) Or 'the giant.' see Deuteronomy 2:11 . shekels
(d-19) Lit. 'weights.'...
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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 had...
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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 p...
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ISHBI-BENOB. — The name is a strange one, and it is generally
thought that some error has crept into the text, but none of the
suggested emendations are free from difficulty. Perhaps the most
probable...
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_וְ_†_יִשְׁבִּ֨י_† בְּ נֹ֜ב אֲשֶׁ֣ר ׀
בִּ ילִידֵ֣י...
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CHAPTER XXIX.
_ LAST BATTLES AND THE MIGHTY MEN._
2 Samuel 21:15; 2 Samuel 23:8.
IN entering on the consideration of these two portions of the history
of David, we must first observe that the events...
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MORE GIANTS SLAIN
2 Samuel 21:12
It was in unsettled weather that Rizpah began her watch; but no
hardship daunted her, no cost was too great. She shielded the dear
remains from bird and beast till th...
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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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And Ishbibenob, which [was] of the sons of (l) the giant, the weight
of whose spear [weighed] three hundred (m) [shekels] of brass in
weight, he being girded with a new [sword], thought to have slain...
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Jesbibenob may signify, "Jesbi, the son of Ob." Septuagint, "Jesbe, of
Nob, who was of the race of the giants." Arapha seems to have been one
of great fame, (ver. 18, 21, 22) who had several children;...
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(12) And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of
Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them
from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them,...
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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 ISHBIBENOB, WHICH [WAS] OF THE SONS OF THE GIANT,.... Of Goliath,
or of a giant, of the race of them:
THE WEIGHT OF WHOSE SPEAR [WEIGHED] THREE HUNDRED [SHEKELS] OF BRASS
IN WEIGHT; which must be...
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And Ishbibenob, which [was] of the sons of the giant, the weight of
whose spear [weighed] three hundred [shekels] of brass in weight, he
being girded with a new [sword], thought to have slain David....
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_The Philistines had yet war again with Israel_ After, or besides the
other wars with the Philistines mentioned in this book, they yet again
disturbed David's repose. _David waxed faint_ Being no long...
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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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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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THE GIANT:
Or, Rapha
SPEAR:
He. the staff, or the head...
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15-22 These events seem to have taken place towards the end of
David's reign. David fainted, but he did not flee, and God sent help
in the time of need. In spiritual conflicts, even strong saints
som...
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THE GIANT; so called by way of eminency. Or, _of Rapha_, a giant so
called. THE WEIGHT OF WHOSE SPEAR WEIGHED THREE HUNDRED SHEKELS: see 1
SAMUEL 17:5. WITH A NEW SWORD, or rather, _with a new girdle_...
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2 Samuel 21:16 Ishbi-Benob H3430 sons H3211 giant H7497 weight H4948
H4948 bronze H5178 spear H7013 three H7969
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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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2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 21:15__ This section tells of four fights
with Philistine giants. “There was war again” suggests that this
is an excerpt from some writing about David’s wars....
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2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 21:16 The GIANTS are usually identified as
the Rephaim, the ancient, pre-Israelite inhabitants of Canaan (e.g.,
Genesis 15:20;...
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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 21:15. “MOREOVER,” or, _and_. “YET,” rather, _again_.
“This refers generally to earlier wars with the Philistines, and has
probably been taken without alteratio...
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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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1 Samuel 17:4; 1 Samuel 17:45; 1 Samuel 17:5; 2 Samuel 21:18;...