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Verse 2 Samuel 21:2. _THE REMNANT OF THE AMORITES_] The Gibeonites
were _Hivites_, not Amorites, as appears from Joshua 11:19: but
_Amorites_ is a name often given to the Canaanites in general, Genes...
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The way in which the writer here refers to the history of the league
with the Gibeonites Joshua 9 shows that the Book of Joshua was not a
part of the same work as the Books of Samuel.
OF THE AMORITES...
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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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GIBEONITES. Compare Joshua 9:3; Joshua 9:16; Joshua 9:17.
NOW. Note the Figure of speech _Parenthesis.App-6._
WERE. they [were].
CHILDREN. sons....
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_the Amorites Amorites_(highlanders) is here and elsewhere used as a
general designation for the ancient inhabitants of Palestine,
particularly those who occupied the mountainous country. See note on...
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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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_AND THE KING CALLED THE GIBEONITES, AND SAID UNTO THEM; (NOW THE
GIBEONITES WERE NOT OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, BUT OF THE REMNANT OF
THE AMORITES; AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAD SWORN UNTO THEM: AND...
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AMORITES] Strictly speaking, the Gibeonites were Hivites (Joshua 9:7),
but 'Amorites' was a general name for the Canaanites.
AMORITES] Strictly speaking, the Gibeonites were Hivites (Joshua 9:7),
esp...
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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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FOR HIS BLOODY HOUSE. — Better, _for the blood-guilty house._
Saul’s family and descendants are regarded, according to the
universal ideas of the times, as sharers in his guilt. The story of
the Gibeo...
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וַ יִּקְרָ֥א הַ מֶּ֛לֶךְ לַ †
גִּבְעֹנִ֖ים...
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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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_Amorrhites, by which name all the nations of Chanaan were frequently
designated, Genesis xv. 16. (Menochius) --- They were properly
Hevites. --- Juda. As if Josue, and all succeeding governors, had
a...
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(2) And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the
Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of
the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto 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 THE KING CALLED THE GIBEONITES,.... Sent messengers unto them, and
summoned them to come to him,
AND SAID UNTO THEM; what is expressed in 2 Samuel 21:3; for what
follows is in a parenthesis:
(NO...
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And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the
Gibeonites [were] not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of
the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: an...
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_In his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah_ When Joshua and the
princes made a league with the Gibeonites, the people were greatly
offended with them, as appears, Joshua chap. 9. Whatever the p...
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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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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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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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SAUL SOUGHT TO SLAY THEM, i. e. he sought occasions and pretences how
he might cut them off with some colour of law or justice, diligently
searching out and aggravating their faults, and punishing the...
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2 Samuel 21:2 king H4428 called H7121 (H8799) Gibeonites H1393 spoke
H559 (H8799) Gibeonites H1393 children H1121 I
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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 Samuel 14:44; 1 Samuel 15:8; 1 Samuel 15:9; 2 Kings 10:16; 2 K
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Sought — That is, he sought how he might cut them off with some
colour of justice, aggravating their faults, and punishing them worse
than they deserved; oppressing them with excessive labours, and
in...