George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
2 Samuel 21:17
Lamp; glory and protection. Achilles reproaches himself for not having been "a light to" his friend. (Homer, Iliad Greek: S.)
Lamp; glory and protection. Achilles reproaches himself for not having been "a light to" his friend. (Homer, Iliad Greek: S.)
Verse 2 Samuel 21:17. _THAT THOU QUENCH NOT THE LIGHT OF ISRAEL._] David is here considered as the _lamp_ by which all Israel was guided, and without whom all the nation must be involved in darkness....
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...
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...
LIGHT. lamp. Compare Genesis 15:17; 1 Kings 15:4.Proverbs 13:9; Proverbs 20:20, though not the same word in...
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...
_and smote_ Perhaps, AND HE (David) SMOTE; as 2 Samuel 21:22 seems to imply that one of them fell by David's own hand. _that thou quench not the light of Israel_ Extinguishing THE LAMP is a natural me...
_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...
_BUT ABISHAI THE SON OF ZERUIAH SUCCOURED HIM, AND SMOTE THE PHILISTINE, AND KILLED HIM. THEN THE MEN OF DAVID SWARE UNTO HIM, SAYING, THOU SHALT GO NO MORE OUT WITH US TO BATTLE, THAT THOU QUENCH NOT...
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...
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...
AND SMOTE. — The original leaves it doubtful whether Abishai is the nominative to the verb, or whether it should be simply _he,_ referring to David. 2 Samuel 21:22 seems to imply that one at least of...
וַ יַּֽעֲזָר ־לֹו֙ אֲבִישַׁ֣י בֶּן ־צְרוּיָ֔ה...
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...
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...
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...
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not...
(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,...
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...
BUT ABISHAI THE SON OF ZERUIAH SUCCOURED HIM,.... Observing him in danger, made haste to his relief: AND SMOTE THE PHILISTINE, AND KILLED HIM; it seems as if Abishai engaged with the Philistine, and...
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not...
_That thou quench not the light of Israel_ Lest thou be slain, and thereby thy people lose their glory and happiness, and even be utterly ruined. Good kings are, in Scripture, justly called the light...
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...
EXPLOITS DURING THE PHILISTINE WARS...
But Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, one of David's commanders, SUCCORED HIM, AND SMOTE THE PHILISTINE, AND KILLED HIM, thus saving the life of David. THEN THE MEN OF DAVID SWAM UNTO HIM, SAYING, THOU SHA...
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...
LIGHT: _ Heb._ candle, or lamp...
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...
Lest thou be slain, and thereby thy people be ruined. Good kings are in Scripture justly called the light of their people, as 1 KINGS 11:36, 1 KINGS 15:4 PSALMS 132:17, because the beauty and glory, t...
2 Samuel 21:17 Abishai H52 son H1121 Zeruiah H6870 aid H5826 (H8799) struck H5221 (H8686) Philistine H6430 killed
2 Samuel 21:17 The personal influence of King David was the spell by which Israel was reunited after long separations and out of great diversities of interests. A skilful general, a gallant soldier, a...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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 11:36; 1 Kings 15:4; 2 Samuel 14:7; 2 Samuel 18:3; 2 Sam