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FOUR - Not necessarily meaning that they were brothers, but that they
were all of the race of the Giant, all Rephaim. The word “four” is
omitted in the parallel passage, only the three last being ment...
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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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_were born to the giant_ Were descendants of _Rapha_, or, _the giant_:
not necessarily all four sons of one man. See note on 2 Samuel 21:16....
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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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_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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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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אֶת ־אַרְבַּ֥עַת אֵ֛לֶּה יֻלְּד֥וּ לְ
הָ רָפָ
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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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_Of David, who was present, though it does not appear that he slew any
of the four. (Calmet)_...
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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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REFLECTIONS
SEE, Reader! in the solemn events of this chapter, in the giving up
the sons of Saul to death, how awfully true that denunciation of the
LORD is, of visiting the iniquities of the fathers...
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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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THESE FOUR WERE BORN TO THE GIANT IN GATH,.... Not to Goliath, for one
of them was his brother, but to some giant or another of that place,
for which it was famous; they were all of them of the race o...
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These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of
David, and by the hand of his servants.
Ver. 22. _And fell by the hand of David._] Because by the hand of his
servants and soldiers....
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_There was yet a battle in Gath_ That is, in the territory of that
city; which circumstance intimates, that this, and consequently the
other battles here described, were fought before David had taken...
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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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These four were born to the giant in Gath and fell by the hand of
David and by the hand of his servants, for they were killed by the
heroes of David while he was their commander in the field. David he...
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EXPLOITS DURING THE PHILISTINE WARS...
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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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FELL BY THE HAND OF DAVID; either because they were slain by his
conduct, and counsel, or concurrence; for he contributed by his hand
to the death of one of them, whilst maintaining a fight with him,...
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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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_Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the
giant._
ON DOING VALIANTLY
If his master bids him perform exploits too hard for him, he draws
upon the resources of omnipotence, and...
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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 20:8; Ecclesiastes 9:11; Jeremiah 9:23; Joshua 14:12;...
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Born to the giant in Gath — These giants were probably the remains
of the sons of Anak, who, tho' long feared, fell at last....