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Verse 2 Samuel 21:15. _MOREOVER THE PHILISTINES HAD YET WAR_] There is
no mention of this war in the parallel place, 1 Chronicles 20:4, c.
_DAVID WAXED FAINT._] This circumstance is nowhere else ment...
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This, like the preceding paragraph 2 Samuel 21:1, is manifestly a
detached and unconnected extract. It is probably taken from some
history of David’s wars, apparently the same as furnished the
materia...
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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...
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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...
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WAR AGAIN. 930-923 B.C.
WAXED FAINT. David was now sixty....
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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...
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_had yet war again_ "Again" refers to earlier wars, the account of
which preceded this narrative in the document from which it was taken.
_went down_ From the high lands of Judah to the low country o...
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MOREOVER THE PHILISTINES HAD YET WAR AGAIN WITH ISRAEL— It appears
from chap. 2 Samuel 15:18 that Ittai, an exile from Gath, arrived at
Jerusalem with all his men on the very eve of David's flight bef...
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_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...
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_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._
Moreover the Philistines had yet w...
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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...
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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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HAD YET WAR AGAIN. — This, like the preceding narrative, bears no
note of time except that it occurred after some other wars with the
Philistines; but this is only to say that it was after David ascen...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Again: it is not certain at what time. Some think it was towards the
beginning of David's reign, since he leads his men to battle; or the
Philistines might have made an irruption into his dominions,...
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(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,...
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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...
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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...
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MOREOVER THE PHILISTINES HAD YET WAR AGAIN WITH ISRAEL,.... Besides
what is before recorded in this and the preceding book; being animated
to it partly by the number of giants among them, and partly b...
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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.
Ver. 15. _Moreover the Philistines_]...
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_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...
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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...
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EXPLOITS DURING THE PHILISTINE WARS...
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Moreover, the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David
went down, and his servants with him, his standing army, his heroes,
AND FOUGHT AGAINST THE PHILISTINES; AND DAVID WAXED FAINT, he wa...
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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...
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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...
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These wars, though here related, were transacted long before this
time: of which SEE POOLE ON "2 SAMUEL 21:1". For it is no way
probable, either that the Philistines, being so fully and perfectly
subd...
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2 Samuel 21:15 Philistines H6430 war H4421 Israel H3478 David H1732
servants H5650 down H3381 (H8799) fought H3898
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 21:15__ This section tells of four fights
with Philistine giants. “There was war again” suggests that this
is an excerpt from some writing about David’s wars....
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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...
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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....
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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...
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1 Chronicles 20:4; 1 Peter 1:24; 1 Peter 1:25; 2 Samuel 5:17;...