A DIGEST OF CHAPTER 21 2 Samuel 21:1-9 _The Gibeonites avenged._ Saul had slain many of the Gibeonites although Joshua had made a covenant to live in peace with them. As a result of this injustice God had sent a famine on Israel. The Gibeonites did not ask for any restitution from David, but they... [ Continue Reading ]
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. And the Lord answered, _It is_ for Saul, and for _his_ bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 David waxed faint. 16 And Ishbi-benob, which _was_ of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear... [ Continue Reading ]