A battle in Gob - In the parallel passage (marginal reference), “Gezer” is named as the field of this battle. However, Gath is named 2 Samuel 21:20, 2 Samuel 21:22 in a way to make it probable that Gath was the scene of all the battles. The Septuagint in this verse has “Gath.”
Verse 2 Samuel 21:18. _A BATTLE - AT GOB_] Instead of _Gob_, several editions, and about _forty_ of _Kennicott's_ and _De Rossi's_ MSS., have _nob_; but _Gezer_ is the name in the parallel place, 1 Ch...
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...
GOB. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "Nob"....
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...
_at Gob_ A place mentioned only here and in 2 Samuel 21:19. The Sept. reads _Gath_, the parallel passage in Chron. _Gezer_; and we must suppose that _Gob_is either a corruption of the text, or some ot...
_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...
_AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THIS, THAT THERE WAS AGAIN A BATTLE WITH THE PHILISTINES AT GOB: THEN SIBBECHAI THE HUSHATHITE SLEW SAPH, WHICH WAS OF THE SONS OF THE GIANT._ There was again a battle with...
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...
AT GOB. — Comp. 2 Samuel 21:19. The place is otherwise unknown. 1 Chronicles 20:4 reads “Gezer,” and the LXX. substitutes “Gath.” (Comp. 2 Samuel 21:20.) It is not at all remarkable that the names of...
וַֽ יְהִי֙ אַֽחֲרֵי ־כֵ֔ן וַ תְּהִי ־עֹ֧וד
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...
And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at (o) Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which [was] of the sons of the giant. (o) Called Gezer, and Sap...
_Gob, as Gazer was called by the Philistines; (1 Paralipomenon xx. 4.; Salien) unless (Haydock) the former word be a mistake of the transcriber. (Calmet) --- Septuagint (Alexandrian) reads, Geth. (Hay...
(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...
AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THIS,.... After the former battle: THAT THERE WAS AGAIN A BATTLE WITH THE PHILISTINES AT GOB; in 1 Chronicles 20:4 it is called Gezer; either the place had two names, or th...
And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which [was] of the sons of the giant. Ver. 18. _There was again a b...
_After this_ After the battle last mentioned. _There was again a battle at Gob_ Or in _Gezer_, as in 1 Chronicles 20:4, whereby it seems Gob and Gezer were neighbouring places, and the battle was foug...
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 it came to pass after this that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob, probably a small place near Gezer; THEN SIBBECHAI THE HUSHATHITE, a general in the standing army, SLEW SAPH, W...
EXPLOITS DURING THE PHILISTINE WARS...
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...
THE GIANT: Or, Rapha...
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...
AFTER THIS; after the battle last mentioned. AT GOB, or, _in Gezer_, as it is 1 CHRONICLES 20:4; whereby it seems _Gob_ and _Gezer_ were neighbouring places, and the battle fought in the confines of b...
2 Samuel 21:18 afterward H310 battle H4421 Philistines H6430 Gob H1359 Sibbechai H5444 Hushathite H2843 killed H5221 ...
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...
_Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant._ ON DOING VALIANTLY If his master bids him perform exploits too hard for him, he draws upon the resources of omnipotence, and...
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 11:29; 1 Chronicles 20:4; 2 Samuel 21:16; 2 Samuel 21:20...
After this — After the battle last mentioned....