What does 2 Samuel 21:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquireda of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites."
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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. A...
_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...
21:1 inquired (e-18) Lit. 'sought the face.'...
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 ha...
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 pr...
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...
וַ יְהִ֣י רָעָב֩ בִּ ימֵ֨י דָוִ֜ד שָׁלֹ֣שׁ שָׁנִ֗ים שָׁנָה֙ אַחֲרֵ֣י שָׁנָ֔ה וַ יְבַקֵּ֥שׁ דָּוִ֖ד...
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...
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 Gibeo...
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...
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)...
_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 unde...
CONTENTS More troubles of David are related in this Chapter. Here are mentioned three years famine in Israel. To implore GOD'S mercy, a sacrifice is made, at the request of the Gibeonites, of seven o...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
ENQUIRED: _ Heb._ sought the face, etc....
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...
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...
2 Samuel 21:1 famine H7458 days H3117 David H1732 three H7969 years H8141 year H8141 after H310 year H8141 David H1732 inquired H1245 (H8762) of H6440 LORD H3068 LORD H3068 answered H559 (H8799) Saul...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 18:2; 1 Samuel 22:17; 1 Samuel 23:11; 1 Samuel 23:2; 1 Samuel 23:4; 2 Kings 6:25; 2 Kings 8:1; 2 Samuel 5:19; 2 Sam
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...