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CHAPTER XXI
_A famine taking place three successive years in Israel, David_
_inquired of the Lord the cause; and was informed that it was_
_on account of Saul and his bloody house, who had slain th...
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There is no note of time whatever, nor any clue as to what part of
David’s reign the events of this chapter ought to be assigned.
ENQUIRED OF THE LORD - Hebrew “sought the face of the Lord,” quite
a d...
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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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FAMINE. One of the thirteen mentioned. See note on Genesis 12:10.
YEAR AFTER YEAR. the year after that year: i.e. 932. David being now
fifty-eight.
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4....
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2 Samuel 21:1-11. A Three Years Famine for Saul's massacre of the
Gibeonites. The Execution of Saul's sons
1. _Then there was a famine_ Render, AND THERE WAS A FAMINE. There is
no adverb of time marki...
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DISCOURSE: 324
FAMINE A PUNISHMENT FOR SIN
2 Samuel 21:1. _Then there was a famine in the days of David three
years, year after year; and David inquired of the Lord. And the Lord
answered, It is for...
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THREE YEARS, YEAR AFTER YEAR— Houbigant reads it, _for three
successive years._ The crime for which the three years of famine were
sent, was the murder of many of the Gibeonites by Saul, with a
determ...
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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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_THEN THERE WAS A FAMINE IN THE DAYS OF DAVID THREE YEARS, YEAR AFTER
YEAR; AND DAVID INQUIRED OF THE LORD. AND THE LORD ANSWERED, IT IS FOR
SAUL, AND FOR HIS BLOODY HOUSE, BECAUSE HE SLEW THE GIBEONI...
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21:1 inquired (e-18) Lit. 'sought the face.'...
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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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XXI.
(1) THEN THERE WAS. — Read, _and there was,_ there being no
indication of time in the original. It is plain from 2 Samuel 21:7
that the events here narrated occurred after David had come to know...
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וַ יְהִ֣י רָעָב֩ בִּ ימֵ֨י דָוִ֜ד
שָׁלֹ֣שׁ
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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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Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after
year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, [It is]
for Saul, and for [his] bloody house, because he slew the (a)...
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Of David, after the revolt of Seba. (Calmet) --- House. It seems the
family and chief officers of Saul, had concurred in his cruelty and
unjust zeal. Hence many of them might be still living, to under...
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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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THEN THERE WAS A FAMINE IN THE DAYS OF DAVID THREE YEARS, YEAR AFTER
YEAR,.... That is, three years running, one after another; some think
this, though here related, was before the rebellions of Absal...
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_Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after
year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, [It is]
for Saul, and for [his] bloody house, because he slew the Gib...
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_Then there was a famine_, &c. The things related here, and chap. 24.,
are, by the best interpreters, conceived to have been done long before
Absalom's rebellion. And this opinion is not without suffi...
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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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Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after
year, three successive years, a fact which made the visitation seem a
special punishment; AND DAVID ENQUIRED OF THE LORD, he sought...
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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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ENQUIRED:
_ Heb._ sought the face, etc....
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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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SAMUEL CHAPTER 21 A three years famine, declared by God to be for the
Gibeonites sake, ceaseth by their hanging seven of Saul's sons, 2
SAMUEL 21:1. Rizpah preserveth the dead bodies, 2 SAMUEL 21:10,1...
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2 Samuel 21:1 famine H7458 days H3117 David H1732 three H7969 years
H8141 year H8141 after H310 year H8141 David...
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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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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 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 18:2; 1 Samuel 22:17; 1 Samuel 23:11; 1 Sa
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Then — The things related here and 2 Samuel 24:1, are by the best
interpreters conceived to have been done long before Absalom's
rebellion. And this opinion is not without sufficient grounds: first,
t...