Verse 2 Samuel 21:10. _RIZPAH - TOOK SACKCLOTH_] Who can read the account of Rizpah's maternal affection for her sons that were now hanged, without feeling his mind deeply impressed with sorrows? Di...
DROPPED - Rather, “poured,” the proper word for heavy rain Exodus 9:33. The “early rain,” or heavy rain of autumn, usually began in October, so that Rizpah’s devoted watch continued about six months....
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...
_spread it_ As a rough tent to shelter her while she watched the corpses. The usage of the word is decisive against understanding it to mean _spread it under her for a bed_, as is done by the Vulg. an...
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...
_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...
_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 A...
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...
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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...
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...
And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took (h) sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until (i) water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds o...
Hair-cloth, to sleep on, occasionally. --- Heaven. The famine had been caused by drought. As soon therefore as rain fell, David was assured that God was appeased. He had suffered the bodies to hang so...
(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...
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...
_THE QUICKENING OF DAVID’S CONSCIENCE BY RIZPAH’S EXAMPLE_ ‘And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, … and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on...
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 RIZPAH THE DAUGHTER OF AIAH TOOK SACKCLOTH,.... Both as a token of mourning for her sons, and as fittest to defend from the weather, the heat by day of cold by night: AND SPREAD IT FOR HER UPON T...
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 ai...
_Rizpah took sackcloth_ Or rather, _hair-cloth_, of which tents were commonly made. _And spread it for her_ As a tent to dwell in: being informed that their bodies were not to be taken away speedily,...
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...
THE DIFFICULTY WITH THE GIBEONITES ADJUSTED...
And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, the mother of two of the hanged men, TOOK SACKCLOTH, the usual garment of mourners, AND SPREAD IT FOR HER UPON THE ROCK, to serve as her bed, FROM THE BEGINNING OF HA...
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...
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...
SPREAD IT FOR HER, as a tent to dwell in; being informed that their bodies were not to be taken away speedily, as the course of the law was in other and ordinary cases, DEUTERONOMY 21:23, but were to...
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2 Samuel 21:10 I. Consider first the Divine dealings with the house of Saul and the people of Israel. The famine was because Saul and his bloody house had slain the Gibeonites. It was a consequence o...
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...
_And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth._ RIZPAH: OR, RELATIVE SUFFERING We may generally see the cause of any suffering if we only go far enough. David began to enquire, and found out the ca...
_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...
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 bod...
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...
1 Kings 18:41; 1 Kings 21:27; 2 Samuel 21:8; 2 Samuel 21:9; 2 Sa
Spread it — As a tent to dwell in: being informed that their bodies were not to be taken away speedily, as the course of the law was in ordinary cases, but were to continue there until God was intreat...