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Verse 2 Samuel 21:10. _RIZPAH - TOOK SACKCLOTH_] Who can read the
account of Rizpah's maternal affection for her sons that were now
hanged, without feeling his mind deeply impressed with sorrows?
Di...
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DROPPED - Rather, “poured,” the proper word for heavy rain Exodus
9:33. The “early rain,” or heavy rain of autumn, usually began in
October, so that Rizpah’s devoted watch continued about six months....
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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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_spread it_ As a rough tent to shelter her while she watched the
corpses. The usage of the word is decisive against understanding it to
mean _spread it under her for a bed_, as is done by the Vulg. an...
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AND RIZPAH THE DAUGHTER OF AIAH, &C.— Commentators have justly
observed from hence, that the hanging of these carcases for so long a
time in the open air, could not be in consequence of any command fr...
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_Rizpah's Sad Vigil._ 2 Samuel 21:10-14
10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for
her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped
upon them out of heave...
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_AND RIZPAH THE DAUGHTER OF AIAH TOOK SACKCLOTH, AND SPREAD IT FOR HER
UPON THE ROCK, FROM THE BEGINNING OF HARVEST UNTIL WATER DROPPED UPON
THEM OUT OF HEAVEN, AND SUFFERED NEITHER THE BIRDS OF THE A...
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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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וַ תִּקַּ֣ח רִצְפָּה֩ בַת ־אַיָּ֨ה
אֶת ־הַ
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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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And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took (h) sackcloth, and spread it for
her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until (i) water
dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds o...
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Hair-cloth, to sleep on, occasionally. --- Heaven. The famine had been
caused by drought. As soon therefore as rain fell, David was assured
that God was appeased. He had suffered the bodies to hang so...
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(10) В¶ And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread
it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water
dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds o...
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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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_THE QUICKENING OF DAVID’S CONSCIENCE BY RIZPAH’S EXAMPLE_
‘And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for
her upon the rock, … and suffered neither the birds of the air to
rest on...
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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 RIZPAH THE DAUGHTER OF AIAH TOOK SACKCLOTH,.... Both as a token of
mourning for her sons, and as fittest to defend from the weather, the
heat by day of cold by night:
AND SPREAD IT FOR HER UPON T...
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And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her
upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon
them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the ai...
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_Rizpah took sackcloth_ Or rather, _hair-cloth_, of which tents were
commonly made. _And spread it for her_ As a tent to dwell in: being
informed that their bodies were not to be taken away speedily,...
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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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And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, the mother of two of the hanged men,
TOOK SACKCLOTH, the usual garment of mourners, AND SPREAD IT FOR HER
UPON THE ROCK, to serve as her bed, FROM THE BEGINNING OF HA...
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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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10-14 That a guilty land should enjoy many years of plenty, calls for
gratitude; and we need not wonder misused abundance should be punished
with scarcity; yet how few are disposed to ask of the Lord...
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SPREAD IT FOR HER, as a tent to dwell in; being informed that their
bodies were not to be taken away speedily, as the course of the law
was in other and ordinary cases, DEUTERONOMY 21:23, but were to...
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2 Samuel 21:10
I. Consider first the Divine dealings with the house of Saul and the
people of Israel.
The famine was because Saul and his bloody house had slain the
Gibeonites. It was a consequence o...
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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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_And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth._
RIZPAH: OR, RELATIVE SUFFERING
We may generally see the cause of any suffering if we only go far
enough. David began to enquire, and found out the ca...
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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 21:10 RIZPAH, mother of two of the men
hanged by the Gibeonites, sheltered their bodies from the birds and
wild animals (compare 1 Sam
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
2 Samuel 21:10. “UNTIL WATER DROPPED,” etc. The early rain usually
began in October. But rain may have been sent earlier as a token of
forgiveness. The reason of the bod...
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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 Kings 18:41; 1 Kings 21:27; 2 Samuel 21:8; 2 Samuel 21:9; 2 Sa
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Spread it — As a tent to dwell in: being informed that their bodies
were not to be taken away speedily, as the course of the law was in
ordinary cases, but were to continue there until God was intreat...