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Verse 2 Samuel 21:8. _FIVE SONS OF MICHAL - WHOM SHE BROUGHT UP_]
Michal, Saul's daughter, was never married to _Adriel_, but to David,
and afterwards to Phaltiel; though it is here said _she bore_ י...
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RIZPAH - See the marginal reference. A foreign origin was possibly the
cause of the selection of Rizpah’s sons as victims.
SONS OF MICHAL - An obvious error for “Merab” (1 Samuel 18:19
note)....
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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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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...
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MICHAL. Some codices, cited in the _Massorah,_ with Septuagint and
Syriac, read "Merab", as in 1 Samuel 18:19....
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_the five sons of Michal … whom she brought up for Adriel_ The Heb.
text can only mean WHOM SHE BARE TO ADRIEL. But it was _Merab_, not
Michal, who was married to Adriel (1 Samuel 18:19). Consequently...
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AND THE FIVE SONS OF MICHAL— Or, _Merab._ From the parallel passage,
1 Samuel 18:19 it appears that _Merab,_ not _Michal,_ was married to
Adriel; and therefore, as Houbigant has very fully shewn, we s...
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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. An...
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_BUT THE KING TOOK THE TWO SONS OF RIZPAH THE DAUGHTER OF AIAH, WHOM
SHE BARE UNTO SAUL, ARMONI AND MEPHIBOSHETH; AND THE FIVE SONS OF
MICHAL THE DAUGHTER OF SAUL, WHOM SHE BROUGHT UP FOR ADRIEL THE S...
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21:8 of] (f-30) i.e. Merab. see 1 Samuel 18:19 ....
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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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MICHAL] Evidently a mistake for 'Merab.' It was Merab who married
Adriel (1 Samuel 18:19). BROUGHT UP] RV 'bore.'
9, 10. BARLEY HARVEST is in April, and the early rain (UNTIL WATER
DROPPED) in Octobe...
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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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TOOK THE TWO SONS OF RIZPAH. — The suggestion that David took
advantage of this opportunity to strengthen himself further against
the house of Saul is utterly set aside by two considerations: (1)
Davi...
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וַ יִּקַּ֣ח הַ מֶּ֡לֶךְ אֶת ־שְׁ֠נֵי
בְּנֵ֨י
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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...
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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...
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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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But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom
she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of (f)
Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel th...
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_Of Michol. They were the sons of Merob, who was married to Hadriel;
but they are here called the sons of Michol, because she adopted them,
and brought them up as her own: (Challoner; Chaldean; St. Je...
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(7) But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of
Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that was between them, between David
and Jonathan the son of Saul. (8) But the king took the two s...
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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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BUT THE KING TOOK THE TWO SONS OF RIZPAH THE DAUGHTER OF AIAH,....
Saul's concubine, 2 Samuel 3:7;
WHOM SHE BARE UNTO SAUL, ARMONI AND MEPHIBOSHETH; of whom we read
nowhere else; after the name of th...
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But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom
she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of
Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the so...
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_The king spared_, &c. For the Gibeonites desiring only such a number,
it was at David's choice whom to spare. _The son of Jonathan_ This is
added to distinguish him from the other _Mephibosheth, 2 Sa...
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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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THE DIFFICULTY WITH THE GIBEONITES ADJUSTED...
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But the king took the two sons of Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, whom
she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, the sons of Saul's
concubine, AND THE FIVE SONS OF MICHAL, THE DAUGHTER OF SAUL, WHOM...
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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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MICHAL:
Or, Michals sister
BROUGHT UP FOR ADRIEL:
_ Heb._ bare to Adriel...
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1-9 Every affliction arises from sin, and should lead us to repent
and humble ourselves before God; but some troubles especially show
that they are sent to bring sin to remembrance. God's judgments o...
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RIZPAH; Saul's concubine, 2 SAMUEL 21:11 2 SAMUEL 3:7. THE FIVE SONS
OF MICHAL, or, of Michal's sister, to wit, Merab; for Michal had no
children, 2 SAMUEL 6:23, nor was she married to this Adriel, bu...
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SONS
Compare (2 Samuel 6:23).
The "five sons" were children of Michal's sister Merab, wife of
Adriel, "whom she brought up for Adriel". (1 Samuel 18:19)....
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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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_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...
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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 21:7 The writer lists the sons of Saul who
were handed over to the Gibeonites. MEPHIBOSHETH the son of RIZPAH
(Saul’s concubine; see...
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
2 Samuel 21:1. “THEN.” Rather, _And_, consequently there is
nothing to indicate the period when the events here recorded took
place, and many commentators consider that...
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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 Samuel 18:19; 2 Samuel 3:7...