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Verse 2 Samuel 21:6. _SEVEN MEN OF HIS SONS_] Meaning sons, grandsons,
or other near branches of his family. It is supposed that the persons
chosen were principal in assisting Saul to exterminate the...
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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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MEN. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14....
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_seven men_ A sacred number, for their execution was to be a solemn
religious act of expiation.
_we will hang them up_ They were to be impaled or crucified, as a
public exhibition of the punishment i...
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IN GIBEAH OF SAUL, WHOM THE LORD DID CHOOSE— _Whom the Lord had
chosen,_ says Houbigant; or, _according to the word of the Lord:_ for
when David asks the Gibeonites, 2 Samuel 21:3. _What shall I do fo...
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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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_LET SEVEN MEN OF HIS SONS BE DELIVERED UNTO US, AND WE WILL HANG THEM
UP UNTO THE LORD IN GIBEAH OF SAUL, WHOM THE LORD DID CHOOSE. AND THE
KING SAID, I WILL GIVE THEM._
Let seven men of his sons be...
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HANG THEM UP] The method of execution is uncertain.
_Whom_ THE LORD DID CHOOSE] RV 'The chosen of the Lord.'...
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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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LET SEVEN MEN OF HIS SONS. — The head of the house and his household
were closely identified in all the ideas of antiquity. Saul being
dead, his male descendants were considered as standing in his pla...
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_יֻתַּן_† ־לָ֜נוּ שִׁבְעָ֤ה
אֲנָשִׁים֙ מִ בָּנָ֔יו וְ
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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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Let seven men of his (d) sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang
them up (e) unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, [whom] the LORD did
choose. And the king said, I will give [them].
(d) Of Saul's kins...
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Chosen. Some think it improbable that they should give Saul this
title; and Castalion would substitute ber, "in the mountain," (ver. 9)
instead of bechir, "anointed," a title which Junius, however, re...
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(4) And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold
of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in
Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for yo...
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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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LET SEVEN MEN OF HIS SONS BE DELIVERED UNTO US,.... They settled upon
this number, either because they were seven, and no more of the
Gibeonites, whom Saul slew, as the Jew say i; two hewers of wood,...
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Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them
up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, [whom] the LORD did choose. And
the king said, I will give [them].
Ver. 6. _Let seven men of...
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_They answered, The man that consumed us_, &c. They desired no
reparation of private damages, or revenge of injuries; all they
required was that a public sacrifice should be made to justice, and to
th...
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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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THE DIFFICULTY WITH THE GIBEONITES ADJUSTED...
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let seven men of his sons, descendants, near relatives, BE DELIVERED
UNTO US, AND WE WILL HANG THEM UP, punish them by crucifixion, UNTO
THE LORD, before His face, to appease His anger, IN GIBEAH OF S...
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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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WHOM THE LORD DID CHOOSE:
Or, chosen of the Lord...
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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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UNTO THE LORD; to vindicate his honour, which was injured by Saul's
violation of the oath and covenant of God, and to appease his wrath.
IN GIBEAH OF SAUL; Saul's country, 1 SAMUEL 10:26, 1 SAMUEL 11:...
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2 Samuel 21:6 seven H7651 men H582 descendants H1121 delivered H5414
(H8714) hang H3363 (H8689) LORD H3068
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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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2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 21:3 The Gibeonites’ request that SEVEN
OF HIS SONS be given to them to be put to death ignores the command in
Deuteronomy 24:16
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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 10:1; 1 Samuel 10:24; 1 Samuel 10:26; 1 Samuel 11:4; 1 S
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I will — Having doubtless consulted God in the matter; who as he had
before declared Saul's bloody house to be the causes of this judgment,
so now commanded that justice should be done upon it, and th...