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...
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...
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...
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...
GIANT. Rapha. See App-23 and App-25, THOUGHT TO HAVE SLAIN, or, said he would _slay._...
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...
_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...
_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...
_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-...
21:16 Raphah (c-9) Or 'the giant.' see Deuteronomy 2:11 . shekels (d-19) Lit. 'weights.'...
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...
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...
_וְ_†_יִשְׁבִּ֨י_† בְּ נֹ֜ב אֲשֶׁ֣ר ׀ בִּ ילִידֵ֣י...
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...
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...
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 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...
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;...
(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,...
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 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...
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....
_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...
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...
And Ishbi-benob, which was of the sons of the giant, one of the giant race of the Rephaim, to which also Goliath belonged, THE WEIGHT OF WHOSE SPEAR WEIGHED THREE HUNDRED SHEKELS OF BRASS IN WEIGHT, t...
EXPLOITS DURING THE PHILISTINE WARS...
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...
THE GIANT: Or, Rapha SPEAR: He. the staff, or the head...
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...
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_...
2 Samuel 21:16 Ishbi-Benob H3430 sons H3211 giant H7497 weight H4948 H4948 bronze H5178 spear H7013 three H7969
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...
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...
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 Samuel 17:4; 1 Samuel 17:45; 1 Samuel 17:5; 2 Samuel 21:18;...