Verse 2 Samuel 21:9. _IN THE BEGINNING OF BARLEY HARVEST._] This happened in Judea about the vernal equinox, or the 21st of _March_....
IN THE FIRST DAYS - The barley harvest (about the middle or toward the end of April) was earlier than the wheat harvest Exodus 9:31; Ruth 1:22....
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...
_in the first_days] Barley harvest preceded wheat harvest, and began about the middle or end of April. Cp. Exodus 9:31-32; Ruth 1:22; Ruth 2:23....
AND HE DELIVERED THEM INTO THE HANDS OF THE GIBEONITES— David had given Saul his oath, that "he would not cut off his seed after him, nor destroy his name out of his father's house." Had Saul's family...
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...
_AND HE DELIVERED THEM INTO THE HANDS OF THE GIBEONITES, AND THEY HANGED THEM IN THE HILL BEFORE THE LORD: AND THEY FELL ALL SEVEN TOGETHER, AND WERE PUT TO DEATH IN THE DAYS OF HARVEST, IN THE FIRST...
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...
THE BEGINNING OF BARLEY HARVEST. — This was immediately after the Passover (Leviticus 23:10), and therefore about the middle of April. The rains of autumn began in October, so that Rizpah’s watch must...
וַֽ יִּתְּנֵ֞ם בְּ יַ֣ד הַ גִּבְעֹנִ֗ים וַ
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 Gibeon...
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...
And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell [all] seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the (g) f...
_Lord. The prophets had frequented this hill, 1 Kings viii. 4, 13. So the Gabaonites crucified these seven, before an ancient altar, as victims to appease God's anger, (Calmet) for the treaty with the...
(7) But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. (8) But the king took the two s...
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...
AND HE DELIVERED THEM INTO THE HANDS OF THE GIBEONITES,.... The two sons of Rizpah and the five sons of Merab, two sons of Saul and five grandsons: AND THEY HANGED THEM IN THE HILL BEFORE THE LORD; i...
And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell [all] seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first...
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...
And he, David, DELIVERED THEM, the seven men selected by him, INTO THE HANDS OF THE GIBEONITES, AND THEY HANGED THEM, impaled them with extended limbs, IN THE HILL BEFORE THE LORD; AND THEY FELL ALL S...
THE DIFFICULTY WITH THE GIBEONITES ADJUSTED...
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...
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...
HE DELIVERED THEM INTO THE HANDS OF THE GIBEONITES. QUEST. How could David do this, when he had sworn that he would not cut off Saul's seed, 1 SAMUEL 24:21,22 ? ANSW. Because he had special warrant an...
2 Samuel 21:9 delivered H5414 (H8799) hands H3027 Gibeonites H1393 hanged H3363 (H8686) hill H2022 before H6440 LO
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...
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 Samuel 15:33; 2 Kings 24:3; 2 Kings 24:4; 2 Samuel 21:6; 2 Samuel