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Verse 2 Samuel 21:18. _A BATTLE - AT GOB_] Instead of _Gob_, several
editions, and about _forty_ of _Kennicott's_ and _De Rossi's_ MSS.,
have _nob_; but _Gezer_ is the name in the parallel place, 1
Ch...
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A BATTLE IN GOB - In the parallel passage (marginal reference),
“Gezer” is named as the field of this battle. However, Gath is
named 2 Samuel 21:20, 2 Samuel 21:22 in a way to make it probable that
Ga...
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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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GOB. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "Nob"....
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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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_at Gob_ A place mentioned only here and in 2 Samuel 21:19. The Sept.
reads _Gath_, the parallel passage in Chron. _Gezer_; and we must
suppose that _Gob_is either a corruption of the text, or some
ot...
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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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_AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THIS, THAT THERE WAS AGAIN A BATTLE WITH
THE PHILISTINES AT GOB: THEN SIBBECHAI THE HUSHATHITE SLEW SAPH, WHICH
WAS OF THE SONS OF THE GIANT._
There was again a battle with...
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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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AT GOB. — Comp. 2 Samuel 21:19. The place is otherwise unknown. 1
Chronicles 20:4 reads “Gezer,” and the LXX. substitutes
“Gath.” (Comp. 2 Samuel 21:20.) It is not at all remarkable that
the names of...
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וַֽ יְהִי֙ אַֽחֲרֵי ־כֵ֔ן וַ תְּהִי
־עֹ֧וד
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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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And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the
Philistines at (o) Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which
[was] of the sons of the giant.
(o) Called Gezer, and Sap...
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_Gob, as Gazer was called by the Philistines; (1 Paralipomenon xx. 4.;
Salien) unless (Haydock) the former word be a mistake of the
transcriber. (Calmet) --- Septuagint (Alexandrian) reads, Geth.
(Hay...
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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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AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THIS,.... After the former battle:
THAT THERE WAS AGAIN A BATTLE WITH THE PHILISTINES AT GOB; in
1 Chronicles 20:4 it is called Gezer; either the place had two names,
or th...
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And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the
Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which
[was] of the sons of the giant.
Ver. 18. _There was again a b...
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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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And it came to pass after this that there was again a battle with the
Philistines at Gob, probably a small place near Gezer; THEN SIBBECHAI
THE HUSHATHITE, a general in the standing army, SLEW SAPH, W...
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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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THE GIANT:
Or, Rapha...
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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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AFTER THIS; after the battle last mentioned. AT GOB, or, _in Gezer_,
as it is 1 CHRONICLES 20:4; whereby it seems _Gob_ and _Gezer_ were
neighbouring places, and the battle fought in the confines of b...
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2 Samuel 21:18 afterward H310 battle H4421 Philistines H6430 Gob H1359
Sibbechai H5444 Hushathite H2843 killed H5221 ...
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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 11:29; 1 Chronicles 20:4; 2 Samuel 21:16; 2 Samuel 21:20...
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After this — After the battle last mentioned....