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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

2 Samuel 21:6

I will — Having doubtless consulted God in the matter; who as he had before declared Saul's bloody house to be the causes of this judgment, so now commanded that justice should be done upon it, and that the remaining branches of it should be cut off; as sufficiently appears from hence, that God was well pleased with the action; which he would not have been, if David had done it without his command; for then it had been a sinful action of David's, and contrary to a double law of God, Deuteronomy 21:23, Deuteronomy 24:16.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MEN. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IN GIBEAH OF SAUL, WHOM THE LORD DID CHOOSE— _Whom the Lord had chosen,_ says Houbigant; or, _according to the word of the Lord:_ for when David asks the Gibeonites, 2 Samuel 21:3. _What shall I do fo...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _LET SEVEN MEN OF HIS SONS BE DELIVERED UNTO US, AND WE WILL HANG THEM UP UNTO THE LORD IN GIBEAH OF SAUL, WHOM THE LORD DID CHOOSE. AND THE KING SAID, I WILL GIVE THEM._ Let seven men of his sons be...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HANG THEM UP] The method of execution is uncertain. _Whom_ THE LORD DID CHOOSE] RV 'The chosen of the Lord.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    LET SEVEN MEN OF HIS SONS. — The head of the house and his household were closely identified in all the ideas of antiquity. Saul being dead, his male descendants were considered as standing in his pla...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _יֻתַּן_† ־לָ֜נוּ שִׁבְעָ֤ה אֲנָשִׁים֙ מִ בָּנָ֔יו וְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Let seven men of his (d) sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up (e) unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, [whom] the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give [them]. (d) Of Saul's kins...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Chosen. Some think it improbable that they should give Saul this title; and Castalion would substitute ber, "in the mountain," (ver. 9) instead of bechir, "anointed," a title which Junius, however, re...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    LET SEVEN MEN OF HIS SONS BE DELIVERED UNTO US,.... They settled upon this number, either because they were seven, and no more of the Gibeonites, whom Saul slew, as the Jew say i; two hewers of wood,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, [whom] the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give [them]. Ver. 6. _Let seven men of...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE DIFFICULTY WITH THE GIBEONITES ADJUSTED...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    let seven men of his sons, descendants, near relatives, BE DELIVERED UNTO US, AND WE WILL HANG THEM UP, punish them by crucifixion, UNTO THE LORD, before His face, to appease His anger, IN GIBEAH OF S...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    WHOM THE LORD DID CHOOSE: Or, chosen of the Lord...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    UNTO THE LORD; to vindicate his honour, which was injured by Saul's violation of the oath and covenant of God, and to appease his wrath. IN GIBEAH OF SAUL; Saul's country, 1 SAMUEL 10:26, 1 SAMUEL 11:...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Samuel 21:6 seven H7651 men H582 descendants H1121 delivered H5414 (H8714) hang H3363 (H8689) LORD H3068

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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