And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, who had slain the best of their tribe and practically annihilated them, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
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...
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...
COASTS. borders....
_devised_ This, and not the marginal alternative _cut us off_, is the right rendering. _in any of the coasts_ IN ALL THE BORDERS. _Coast_, from _costa_, a rib or side, originally meant any border or...
2. The Three Years of Famine, 2 Samuel 21:1-22. _The Gibeonites Avenged._ 2 Samuel 21:1-9 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the Lord. An...
_AND THE GIBEONITES SAID UNTO HIM, WE WILL HAVE NO SILVER NOR GOLD OF SAUL, NOR OF HIS HOUSE; NEITHER FOR US SHALT THOU KILL ANY MAN IN ISRAEL. AND HE SAID, WHAT YE SHALL SAY, THAT WILL I DO FOR YOU._...
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...
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...
וַ יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ אֶל ־הַ מֶּ֔לֶךְ הָ אִישׁ֙
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...
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 Gibeon...
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...
(4) And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for yo...
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...
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...
AND THEY ANSWERED THE KING,.... Declaring expressly what they would have done: the man that consumed us; meaning Saul, who lessened their number by cruel oppressions of some, and by taking away the li...
And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us [that] we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel, Ver. 5. _The man that consumed us and de...
_They answered, The man that consumed us_, &c. They desired no reparation of private damages, or revenge of injuries; all they required was that a public sacrifice should be made to justice, and to th...
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...
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...
DEVISED AGAINST US: Or, cut us off...
1-9 Every affliction arises from sin, and should lead us to repent and humble ourselves before God; but some troubles especially show that they are sent to bring sin to remembrance. God's judgments o...
That we should be either killed, or banished from the land of Israel; which is as bad as death to us, because here, and here only, God is truly worshipped and enjoyed. Whereby it seems divers of them...
2 Samuel 21:5 answered H559 (H8799) king H4428 man H376 consumed H3615 (H8765) plotted H1819 (H8765) destroyed...
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...
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...
_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...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 21:3 The Gibeonites’ request that SEVEN OF HIS SONS be given to them to be put to death ignores the command in Deuteronomy 24:16
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...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 2 Samuel 21:1. “THEN.” Rather, _And_, consequently there is nothing to indicate the period when the events here recorded took place, and many commentators consider that...
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....
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...
2 Samuel 21:1; Daniel 9:26; Esther 9:24; Esther 9:25; Matthew 7:2...