Moreover, the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, his standing army, his heroes, and fought against the Philistines; and David waxed faint, he was overcome with weariness.
Verse 2 Samuel 21:15. _MOREOVER THE PHILISTINES HAD YET WAR_] There is no mention of this war in the parallel place, 1 Chronicles 20:4, c. _DAVID WAXED FAINT._] This circumstance is nowhere else ment...
This, like the preceding paragraph 2 Samuel 21:1, is manifestly a detached and unconnected extract. It is probably taken from some history of David’s wars, apparently the same as furnished the materia...
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...
WAR AGAIN. 930-923 B.C. WAXED FAINT. David was now sixty....
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...
_had yet war again_ "Again" refers to earlier wars, the account of which preceded this narrative in the document from which it was taken. _went down_ From the high lands of Judah to the low country o...
MOREOVER THE PHILISTINES HAD YET WAR AGAIN WITH ISRAEL— It appears from chap. 2 Samuel 15:18 that Ittai, an exile from Gath, arrived at Jerusalem with all his men on the very eve of David's flight bef...
_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...
_MOREOVER THE PHILISTINES HAD YET WAR AGAIN WITH ISRAEL; AND DAVID WENT DOWN, AND HIS SERVANTS WITH HIM, AND FOUGHT AGAINST THE PHILISTINES: AND DAVID WAXED FAINT._ Moreover the Philistines had yet w...
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...
HAD YET WAR AGAIN. — This, like the preceding narrative, bears no note of time except that it occurred after some other wars with the Philistines; but this is only to say that it was after David ascen...
וַ תְּהִי ־עֹ֧וד מִלְחָמָ֛ה לַ † פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים...
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...
_Again: it is not certain at what time. Some think it was towards the beginning of David's reign, since he leads his men to battle; or the Philistines might have made an irruption into his dominions,...
(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...
MOREOVER THE PHILISTINES HAD YET WAR AGAIN WITH ISRAEL,.... Besides what is before recorded in this and the preceding book; being animated to it partly by the number of giants among them, and partly b...
Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint. Ver. 15. _Moreover the Philistines_]...
_The Philistines had yet war again with Israel_ After, or besides the other wars with the Philistines mentioned in this book, they yet again disturbed David's repose. _David waxed faint_ Being no long...
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...
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...
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...
These wars, though here related, were transacted long before this time: of which SEE POOLE ON "2 SAMUEL 21:1". For it is no way probable, either that the Philistines, being so fully and perfectly subd...
2 Samuel 21:15 Philistines H6430 war H4421 Israel H3478 David H1732 servants H5650 down H3381 (H8799) fought H3898
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 Chronicles 20:4; 1 Peter 1:24; 1 Peter 1:25; 2 Samuel 5:17;...